More directly, it arose out of the profound social and economic changes of the early nineteenth century. ... To the frustration of both self-made men and plebeians, certain eighteenth-century elitist republican assumptions remained strong, especially in the seaboard states, mandating that government be left to a natural aristocracy of virtuous, propertied gentlemen. Simultaneously, some of the looming shapes of nineteenth-century capitalism "chartered corporations, commercial banks, and other private institutions "presaged the consolidation of a new kind of moneyed aristocracy. ...

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Until the incorporation of public school education in the nineteenth century, home schooling was seen as the predominant method of instruction for children of every economic, social, and cultural stratum. ...

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The emergence of many popular music genres during the twentieth century can be linked to technological advancements of the same period. The rise of recorded music together with more stringent copyright protection laws facilitated the development of the music business in capitalist society and more specifically the centralization of the American music publishing business and songwriters in an area of New York known as Tin Pan Alley in the late-nineteenth century. ... During the twentieth century, a vast number of musical genres and styles emerged, particularly during the postwar period. ...

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