...Did you know in the 1800’s in Hawaii there were about 180,000 chinese immigrants living and working there. Also, during the 1800’s was when many immigrants of china and the philippines came to Hawaii to work on the plantations. Life on the Hawaiian sugar plantations in the 1800’s for immigrant workers was not easy because their living conditions were unsanitary, their working conditions were brutal, and the plantation owners treated different races unequal. First of all the immigrant workers housing was very unsanitary and all just too small for the workers. Another reason why the housing was horrible was because the homes were usually surrounded by sugar cane and had no shade. Secondly, all the houses seemed extremely unsanitary. Finally all of the houses included only a bed, a homemade stove to cook on and some of the immigrants belongings. That is one reasons why the life of an immigrant worker in the 1800’s was not easy....
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...Americanization of Immigrants and Native Americans In the late 1800’s immigration has increased immensely. Not only was the population growing but substantial problems went along with the immigration. In restatement, the immigrants came to America to find better opportunity upon a future they want to achieve. The types of immigrants were the Irish, Germans, Chinese, etc. These people wanted to seek for an opportunity to escape their religion, harsh government in their native country, and own land. As the population grew, the society had to change and step up to it’s capability of becoming a stable nation. Some of the significant things that occurred in the life of an immigrant in the society were economical and political problems. Some of the economical changes the immigrants have made, for example were the jobs they had to make money. Many of the 25 million immigrants that entered America between 1866 and 1915 became factory workers. However, for immigrants in the cities, factory work was one of the few options available. Agriculture jobs and factory jobs were the main areas of employment for a lot of former slaves and immigrants. In factories, they had poor lighting, unsanitary conditions, and the jobs were highly dangerous. Women, men and children were able to work in these conditions for up to 12 hours per day. As soon as one became ill or died another person would step over into their past job without a second thought. Another problem that occurred was the population...
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...Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Letter from Brook Farm is just one of many primary documents preserving firsthand accounts of life in these communities. There are enough primary sources in enough detail such that Sterling F. Delano was able to create a secondary source, providing some evaluation and analysis in what has been referred to as a standard for a starting point when researching these societies in the book Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia. Brook Farm was actually far from singular as a utopia experiment. In The Americanization of Utopia: Fourierism and the Dilemmma of Utopian Dissent in the United States an article by Carl J. Guarneri. Guarneri points out many such communities and experiments took place in the 1800’s. The Harmonys in Pennsylvania and New Harmony in Indianna, Onieda in New York, the list goes on although daily life Brook Farm, as was experienced by one of the community members, Nathanial Hawthorne, being the subject of the primary source of this paper. Brook Farm is seen as a trivial contribution by some writers, Guarneri’s article states the contrary that while Brook Farm is one of many experiments it was an important part of the utopian experiments of the time. Other secondary sources, reviews of Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia from Leigh E. Schmidt, Alison Easton and Carl J. Guarneri also indicate that Brook Farm was more than just a minor contributor to the utopian experiments of the 1800’s. The Brook Farm experiment was designed by George Ripley...
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...today has grown from a number of complexed changes and events throughout history. The aim of this essay is to explore and outline a number of key differences from the 1500-1800 time period to today’s modern world, a summary of Blainey’s (2001) work will help give an idea of how life was in that earlier time period and allows us to reference it against what we know as today. Particular differences will be outlined between the two time lines with focus on war, the roles of animals and work structure. These differences will highlight how society has changed from a localized unit to a global unit. Society on a global scale was mostly Agrarian in structure whilst some nomadic style hunter gathers or pastorals groups (Blainey (2001, p.410) still existed in the early 1500’s-1800’s. Life revolved around food, the production of food was what made up day to day life, the average house hold didn’t have enough land to produce what was needed and many people worked at neighbouring farms and meals themselves were used as partial payment. Food was almost the be all and end all it determined wealth, stature and even if and when young single women could marry, Blainey (2001, p.412) explains that if a harvest was plentiful the woman may marry however if the harvest was lean the wedding would be postponed. Work on the farm was predomitdly carried out by the woman and elder children, duties such as fetching fire wood, collecting water from the well, spinning yarn, cooking and cleaning (Blainey...
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...Cultural Diversity Similarly to most white American’s a lot of my family came from Germany. When exploring this question I was shocked to find out how little I actually knew about my heritage and where I come from. Both sides of my father’s family come from Germany, specifically the Bavarian Region in the mid 1800’s. Similar to many other people during this time frame they came over to see the new world, to find farm land. My mother’s family is a little bit more complex. My great great great grandma came over from Ireland during the potato famine, which was also the mid 1800’s, her parents put her on a boat with no possessions, even shoes and she came over to America and was adopted by an Amish family. My grandmother along with all of her siblings chose to leave the Amish community, but because so much of my family is still Amish the Amish culture has played a huge role in my life. Very little is known about my mom’s dad. We know that his mother is Native American from Ohio at some point but that is all we know and there is relatively nothing known about his father or anything other than that. Nobody in my family knew of any specific discrimination that we have encountered other than my grandpa’s family. Being Native American has been something that has come with a lot of discrimination in America, regardless of many efforts that have been made they are still looked at differently. While I don’t look particularly “Indian” my grandfather and his siblings all do and I have...
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...All of Russia’s leaders have had an impact on Russia today for the better or for the worse. The people who ruled Russia during wartime have had a great effect on its economy in addition to the conditions of its citizens. In the 1800s Russia tried its hand at expansionism, gaining Siberia as well as going all the way over to the Pacific. During this time Peter the Great as well as Catherine II had been on a quest to capture a warm water port, seizing lands on the Baltic and Black seas. Russia’s expansion of different lands made other countries wary of the vast empire, because its global influence was so great. During the 1800s the tsars kept switching from reform and repression of its people. Tsar Alexander II sought reform, but was assassinated, which made the country’s new tsar fall back to repression. When Alexander II...
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...project does not need to be submitted to turnitin. NOTE: Please write your answers in a clear and concise manner. Limit your submission of the Timeline Part II up to 250 words per topic/subtopic. For example, if a topic is divided into 3 subtopics, you may write a maximum of 250 per subtopic listed. Be sure to cite all sources. Major Event/Epoch in American History | Time Period/Date(s) | Description and Significance of the People/Event(s) to American History | 1) The evolution of the institution of slavery from the Colonial Period to the 1860s. | 1619 - 1865 | Slavery began with in 1619 with the first slaves brought to Virginia as indentured servants. As time goes by, slavery becomes more popular, to help with farming large farms or plantations. Though the Declaration of Independence in 1776 states that “all men are created equal” this did not apply to people of color. By the time the Civil War starts, slavery is big business, and the south is fighting for the right to keep it. In 1865 the U.S. abolishes slavery with the 13th Amendment. | 2) The socio-cultural impact of the abolitionist movement including: a) The effect of Uncle Tom’s Cabin b) The Kansas-Nebraska Act c) The Compromise of 1850 d) The Underground Railroad | 1850 - 1865 | a) Uncle Tom’s Cabin brought to light the horrors of slavery. This gave more fuel to the already strong abolitionist movement. b) The Kansas-Nebraska Act created the territories...
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...During the 1800s the Industrial Revolution spread throughout Britain. The use of steam-powered machines, led to a massive increase in the number of factories (particularly in textile factories or mills). Many factory workers were children. They worked long hours and were often treated badly by the supervisors or overseers. Sometimes the children started work as young as four or five years old. A young child could not earn much, but even a few pence would be enough to buy food. lasted from the 18th century to the 19th century As the number of factories grew people from the countryside began to move into the towns looking for better paid work. The wages of a farm worker were very low and there were less jobs working on farms because of the invention and use of new machines such as threshers. Also thousands of new workers were needed to work machines in mills and foundries and the factory owners built houses for them.Cities filled to overflowing and London was particularly bad. At the start of the 19th Century about 1/5 of Britain’s population lived there, but by 1851 half the population of the country had set up home in London. London, like most cities, was not prepared for this great increase in people. People crowded into already crowded houses. Rooms were rented to whole families or perhaps several families. The Industrial Revolution affected many people, some of these people were affect in a positive way and some in a negative way. The new industry needed a lot of working...
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...during the early parts of the 1800s that the North and South began to split into different directions. The North relied heavily on manufacturing while the South relied on its agriculture and farming. These two differences in producing goods led to the separation in values and cultures that would divide a nation. It would take a civil war raging throughout the nation to conclude the longstanding separation between the two. The North and South were two different cultures in the same country. In the North, the soil and climate did not favor large farmlands and plantations, and so they relied heavily on industry. Factories were set up making textiles from cotton from the South. Slavery had died out because many immigrants came from Europe to work in the factories. Irish, German, and other Europeans settling in the North led to a huge population boost between 1800 and 1860. There were many skilled workers and the large urban cities were centers of wealth. Both religion and education were organized and there were schools and churches in most towns. Very few boys and almost no girls continued on to secondary school and a college education was reserved for the wealthy. They were more likely to have careers in business, medicine and education. The culture of the North was determined by life in the cities. The South’s soil and climate was ideal for agriculture and growing crops. There were very few large cities and most southerners lived on small farms. Large plantations were owned...
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...a behavior or process that undermines the rights and individuality of others. Fredrick Douglas was born into slavery in 1817. He was often beaten and whipped. He lived a rough life as a slave. He taught himself how to read and earned his freedom. Solomon Northup unlike Frederick was born a freeman, he was then kidnapped and sold to the Red River region of Louisiana. For the next twelve years he was property of several different slave owners, where he was whipped and beaten. Before he was freed by some northerners. Dehumanization happened to both Fredrick Douglas and Solomon Northup in the 1800 hundreds, and they both had to persevere to overcome it. “They ain't hired help. They're my property.” - Edwin Epps. (1:43:01) Edwin Epps was a mean slave owner. We constantly whipped and beat his slaves. Patsy one of his slaves went to get soap from the neighbor because she picked twice as much cotton as any other slave, and when she got back she was whipped twice as much. He also raped her. He was often drunk, and when he was drunk he got angry and violent. He didn't see his slaves as humans but as property that he could do whatever he wanted with them....
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...Reconstruction and the West HIS/120 Reconstruction * The post-Civil War South has been called the “New South.” In what ways did it succeed in reinventing itself? In what ways did it fail? After the war ended as many as four million slaves were freed. The south had freed slaves and now had a war torn area that needed rebuilding and restructuring. For the next few decades the focus was on creating a railroad expansion and fixing the farm lands. New textile, iron, and steel industries came to be with great success. Farming was a big part of the south and many freed slaves continued to contribute on farm lands for meager wages. The issue with the reconstruction was the newness of the world around everyone. Many white southern slave owners continued with their unfair and brutal treatment of former slaves. With no one around really setting down the new laws many people just did as they pleased. Many people, white and black became homeless and starved to death because there was no system in place to help. Abraham Lincoln was on the right path to fixing the issues the south had after the war. However after his assassination, Johnson took over and pretty much ignored all of Lincolns plans. This was the unraveling of the original reconstruction plan. Johnson had no concern for the freed slaves and their circumstances. This was the unsuccessful part of the reconstruction that seemed to majorly overshadow the small successes. Though the majority of plans for helping the south...
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...Railroads have been around since 1826 and were one of the fastest means of travel, even though they might not have been the safest. Railroads did many things to help improve the ways many people lived and moved throughout the United States. Railroads stimulated growth in the Great Plains through cattle cowboys, farming expansion, and the economy. The cowboy became a symbol of the west in the late 1800’s and the early 1900’s. Cattle cowboys typically had long, strenuous journeys that couldn’t be avoided most of the time. Railroads helped alleviate some of this journey by providing a way for the cowboys to transport themselves and their cattle in a fast manner. Having these railroads made cattle drives and the exchange of cattle much easier...
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...beginning to question their faith, religion and place in society. Facing a similar evolution of her role, in Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Tess reinforces the struggles of women in this time period living a life filled with complications such as having to work to provide for her family, being caught up in a twisted love triangle, and being shunned by her society due to challenges and circumstances she lived with. As many women were doing, Tess left home to work early in the book. Many women during this time broke away from the path many of their female ancestors had followed. Women no longer had to stay at home and follow the stereotypes that had been made, but they could leave home and find work in the cities. Many women during the late 1800s and early 1900s found jobs in factories or worked jobs that men thought they could handle. Tess first left her house to work for the d’Urbervilles on their mansion. She was to take care of the birds. Tess left the mansion after she was raped by her cousin, Alec. She returned home impregnated and still needed to help provide for the family. After her baby was born, Tess started working as a farm hand in her hometown, Marlott. Tess decided to leave home after this miserable year. A job opening shows up at a dairy farm. Tess went to the farm and crossed paths with Angel Clare. After leaving...
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...productivity and vast improvements in farm technology It was difficult for people living in an advanced industrialized society to fully comprehend the life of a modern farmer, much less farmers were living before the Industrial Revolution. Up until the end of the eighteenth century, the vast majority of people were farmers who lived lives that were "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." for the vast majority of people, until the advent of an agricultural revolution that started in Great Britain during the early 1700s, reached North America by the mid-1800s, and continues to this day in all but the most benighted of nations. But the pace quickened during the start of the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century, and changes that had previously taken centuries and generations began to occur within decades. By 1750, the English agriculture was the best in the world. It was also fully integrated into a market economy. The dominance of the British Empire in world affairs during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ensured that these agricultural improvements were widely distributed. In the late 18th century (at the start of the industrial revolution): 15 to 20% of the land was owned by the farmers themselves, and 75% of the land was owned by large landlords, families had owned the land for many generations. The small farmers who sold their land rights mostly become agricultural labourers. In some areas people lost their jobs on farms faster than they could get new jobs...
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...and many Indians fell in the hands of the European. Slaves were mistreated, overworked, and tortured to an extent of them dying at the farms. The introduction of Christianity by the Europeans meant that the Indians had to do away with their old fashioned ways of worship. The Indians and the European immigrants had different religion and beliefs that had to be unified for a common existence. The interaction between people of different races, religions and beliefs has been a great aspect of the American history. It was until later in the 20th century that European exploration and colonization of America that brought change in how the Old and New Worlds interacted. The settlement of the Indians in America was a vital mark in the development of native culture. The Indians established their lifestyle blended with rich culture and religion. The Indians on the East Coast had a more civilized life and well-established trade systems. The first encounter between the Europeans and the native Indians took place in the 1500s.[1] The Europeans discovered America as they engaged in fishing of whales and other sea exploration activities. The first encounters between the Indians and he Europeans involved trade activities and this gave the whites a chance to learn about the new world. The Europeans also hired the Indians to work for them on their farms. In his speeches, Pontiac points out that a move by the Indians to rebel against the invasion of the Europeans was faced with a brutal...
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