The immigrants in Out of This Furnace faced political struggles, and were intimidated by their peers to vote Republican. ... Dobie and Julie spend all of their extra money on new, automated equipment like a washing machine. "You needed a washing machine, didn't you? ... There has been a political progression throughout Out of this Furnace; starting with Kracha, who believed that American politics could not do anything for him " a little man could logically be for little men, but by his very success in getting nominated Bryan had ceased to be a little man" (Bell, 65). Mike Dobrejcak was po...

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• Grade Level: High School

The book also provides a different viewpoint of the black political struggle. ... I found this book to very interesting, especially as an African-American student in political science. ... I would highly recommend it to another student, especially one who is interested in politics as a career. ... He often compares the American political system with politics in England. ... He sees the American government as a complex machine that has a high degree of maintenance from its citizens. ...

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The American Civil War produced a change in the political, economical, and social life of Americans and therefore I consider it to be a revolution. ... The sewing machine was also a growing industry to make uniforms and supplies for the armies. ... The war had a big political influence. ... The American Civil War had a great impact on the American people because it was a war of values and customs; it caused many changes to take place economically, politically, and especially socially....

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Did you know, America's bloodiest battle fought on American soil, was the Civil War? The Civil War was fought between the northern states and the southern states. Many causes provoked the war, which would affect the nation for decades to come. Slavery, the Missouri Compromise, and John Brown's attac...

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This machine was simple in design yet extremely effective. The entire goal of the machine was to put in picked cotton and end up with seeded pure cotton. ... Someone, it didn't matter who because it took no talent, took a couple of pounds of raw cotton and fed it into the top of the machine. ... This machine allowed Southern planters to grow a variety of cotton short staple cotton--that was especially well suited to the climate of the Deep South. ... He decided he would build a machine that would clean cotton faster than it could be done by hand. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the years before the Civil War the political power in the Federal Government, centered in Washington D.C., was changing. ... The Southern States were losing political power. ... Not having the use of machines, it took a great amount of human labor to pick cotton. ...

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Like the naissance fathers, the Confederacy felt oppressed with the majority of power belonging to a powerful elitist group, especially in the political realm. ... The north, as I have noted, was the technological advanced group with more trains and power-driven machines. ...

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Slavery was the central source of escalating political tension in the 1850s. ... Sectionalism Sectionalism refers to the different economies, social structure, customs and political values of the North and South. ... The fourth theory was advocated by Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis, one of state sovereignty, also known as the "Calhoun doctrine," named after the South Carolinian political theorist and statesman John C. ... National Elections Beginning in the American Revolution and accelerating after the War of 1812, the people of the United States grew in their sense of country as ...

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• Grade Level: High School