Although from the late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century America's expansionism was a slight continuation of the past, it was also done with new ways and proved to also be a large departure from the past. ... From the late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century the United States political expansionism was a continuation of the past, but at the same time it was a departure. ... Politics linked late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Untied States to the past and at the same time made it a departure. From the late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-c...

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American Expansion During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the United States pursued an aggressive policy of expansionism, extending its political and economic influence around the globe. ... Throughout the 19th century and the twentieth century, Americans discussed and debated issues connected to expansion. ... In addition, when America was expanding in the early nineteenth century, outside resistance was much less powerful than when America was looking for land overseas in the late nineteenth century. ... But then in the sunset decades of the nineteenth century, a moment...

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In the first couple decades of the nineteenth century, a great majority of Americans did not see the value of an attractive yard and thus took no care in its upkeep. ... The amount of the members in the average American household never really changes until later in the nineteenth century, however we begin to see changes as early as the 1800s when couples begin to limit the size of their families. ... The United States was primarily a handmade land in the early nineteenth century; production was still small-scale and not yet mechanized nor standardized. ... Due to farming being of the utmost i...

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Overview The Dawes Severalty Act how we call synonymously General Allotment Act which laid at the heart of the nineteenth century federal American policy broke the Indian reservation lands into parcels and started the process of selling vast of surplus lands to newcomers and White Americans, who took advantage of it. ... Obviously we have to mention growing population and huge immigration to America during the nineteenth century which fact had to result with accurate politic moves from government side. ... The example of this war showed that there is nothing but business worth for congressmen...

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America in the late nineteenth century witnessed unprecedented levels of immigration from central Europe, which in turn ignited equally unprecedented social and political tensions in the United States. ... My Antonia explores the lives of immigrants on the United States frontier in the second half of the nineteenth century. ... The melting pot, as McNall called Nativism, had been present from the beginning of the century of Immigration. ... Not only was nativism "present from the beginning of the century of immigration, but infected all sections of the country and every class"(Wells 6). ...

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Women's Roles and Rights Starting the nineteenth century, the U.S. was still a man's world. ... Gender differences were strongly emphasized in nineteenth-century America mainly due to the economy. ... Although a number of small manufacturing enterprises existed in America, the value of the output of factories did not exceed that of farms until well past the middle of the nineteenth century. ...

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That inventor is Eli Whitney, whom which could be considered the most important inventor of the nineteenth century. ... In the early nineteenth century there was one invention that would be originally created to help and make the country more efficient. ... By the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth slavery was on the decline and many people thought that there would no longer be a necessity. ...

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The feminist movement was one of the most important social movements of the 19th and 20th centuries. ... Women have been fighting for many centuries now, just for equality. ... Since the nineteenth century women have been constantly active, rallying and lobbying in the hope they will improve their rank in society. ... On August 26, 1920 the Nineteenth Amendment joined the Constitution and twenty six million American women became eligible to vote. ...

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Progressives' especially middle class female activists helped spearhead the movement for laws that restricted child labor in 38 states by the late nineteenth century. ... After the turn of the century, leaders of a new association, the Congressional Union, took the campaign to the national level. ... America never could have risen to its dominant place in the world of industrial nations without the backbreaking toil of its workers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ...

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During the late nineteenth century and during the twentieth century came personal narratives. ... One of the best known Indian writers of the twentieth century was Charles Eastman. ... The only Pueblo Indian to have a book published in the first half of the twentieth century was James Paytiamo, who wrote Flaming Arrow's People: By an Acoma Indian. ...

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It is unique because Native Americans were the original inhabitants of the Americas and experienced all the stages of its settlement by Europeans since the first colony in the seventeenth century and ending with the completion of the development of the western borders by the end of the nineteenth century. ... At the same time, Native Americans, although they were deprived of their ancestral lands during the nineteenth century, survived and were able to establish themselves in their political and economic rights, maintained their national identity and culture in spite of the invasion of modern...

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Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were the first of the nineteenth century Presidents of the United States. ... In the late eighteenth century, more specifically the seventeen nineties, the Federalists believed in having a strong national government. ... The characterization of broad constructionist Federalists and strict constructionist Republicans was very accurate before the nineteenth century. ... There were a few judicial issues during the early nineteenth century that sparked debates between the Federalists and Republicans in their different constitutional constructionist views. ...

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Beginning in the nineteenth century, in America, this diversion became baseball. ... "Baseball suited America with perfection: It was the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of he drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century- (Abrams 5). ... The baseball boom of the early twentieth century built upon the game's simple charms of exercise and communal celebration, adding the psychological and social complexities of vicarious play: civic pride, role models, and hero worship. ...

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Dryden and Davenant's changes to Shakespeare's original continued to influence the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century critics. Eighteenth-century commentaries on Caliban still treated him as a monster, but they focused on new issues. ... From the late eighteenth century commentators began to associate The Tempest's plot, language and characters with Europe's exploration and colonization of America. ... "Colonial metaphors" was a trend contemporaneous to the American school and flourished in the twentieth century outside the English-speaking nations. ... The view prevalent ...

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In the late nineteenth century, American industry was flourishing, and Americans were becoming more wealthy. ... Such social maneuvering was crucial in late nineteenth century society, both in Europe and in America. ...

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The novel is comically littered with contradictory tones and gross inaccuracies in terms of frontier life, but in spite of the aforementioned, Cooper manages to convey his over-used American roughrider, Hawkeye, as a genuine model for nineteenth-century gunslinger heroes. ... As the focus switches to Coopers beloved character, Hawkeye, the "cowboys and Indians" sentiment that so clearly defined the mid-nineteenth century manifests itself with great propensity. ...

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The end of the nineteenth century saw the birth of a new American attitude and ideology. ... McKinley was a religious man as were many other politicians and Americans during the end of the nineteenth century. ...

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In the latter part of the nineteenth century, America-especially the Confederate states-was still struggling since racist attitudes were still customary. ... As the nineteenth century came to an end, Plessy versus Ferguson no longer held significance. ... The twentieth century brought on yet another attempt to rid the once beautiful country of such hate. ...

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The first established death penalty laws date back to the eighteenth century B.C in the code of King Hammaurabi. ... The death penalty was also part of the seventh century's Draconian code of Athens which made death the only punishment for all crimes and in the fifth century B.C's Roman Law of Twelve Tablets. ... In the tenth century A.D hanging became the usual method of execution in Britain. ... Though, this did not last in the sixteenth century under the reign of Henry VIII. ... In the mid- nineteenth century the abolitionist movement gained momentum, many states reduced their num...

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It is a story of man's inhumanity to his fellow beings.1 During the nineteenth century just after the War of 1812 there was a significant migration of people with no land and no slaves to remaining lands in the east. ... Professor William Scarborough in an Internet article about the Indians displacement in the 19th century writes of one man, "Guy S. ... By the mid-century it became clear that the U.S. expansion was going to claim the trans-Mississippi West as well. ... By the last half of the 19th century, there was already pressure for the government to free up more land already bel...

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The 20th century was witness to probably the most useful and practical technological invention - the computer. ... In addition to, "the enhancement of telecommunications," and for that matter all technological advancements in the past century, "ha[ve] created the material infrastructure needed for the formation of a global economy, in a movement similar to that which lay behind the construction of the railways and the formation of national markets during the nineteenth century" (Thrift, 31). ... The 20th century global economy has blurred the lines of the "nation-state" and is now run by tra...

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However, the Texas Constitution is now outdated and piece of history, needing to be rewritten for twenty- first century ideals. ... First, the Texas Constitution is fundamentally a nineteenth century document that is inadequate to use to govern in the twenty- first century (Casey). ...

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This hostility was not uncommon among blacks and whites at the time, and though for years now, black Americans have been granted equal rights and given the freedoms possessed by whites for centuries, a limited hostility remains between blacks and whites today. ...

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The nineteenth century romantics- A. ... Edgar Allan Poe- The short stories and poetry of 19th-century American Edgar Allan Poe reflect the writer's haunting imagination. ... The twentieth and twenty-first century romantics A. ... In being both traditional and skeptical, Frost's poetry helped provide a link between the American poetry of the 19th century and that of the 20th century. ... Cummings (1894-1962) - American poet, who was one of the most radically experimental and inventive writers of the 20th century. ...

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The state was populated by the migration of people from southern neighboring states in the mid-nineteenth-century after the end of the Civil War. ... Twelve thousand people live in one development alone, century Village. ...

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