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…Lucretia Mott, a founder of and delegate for the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. At the beginning of the Convention, male delegates argued whether women should take part. When the British excluded the American women delegates, Mott and Stanton…

…workers, the immigrants were willing to work for cheap. This let the industry cut the cost of employing workers, in fact, many industries went to European sources to find workers for more cheap labor. The native Americans who, generally, were driven from…

…period pieces or the films of big directors, repeated viewings of American Beauty will suggest that they really got this one right…

…of Cecilia’s life but it was in fact a good example of some of the social issues that posed a problem in society during the nineteenth century. Bibliography The African American Odyssey, Hine D., HIne W., Stanley, H…

…levies on American trade. Therefore, he passed the Townshend Acts, which could tax imported goods from England to the colonies; this was an improvement on the Stamp Act. The Townshend Acts were designed to raise revenue to support colonial governors, judges…

…Events leading to the American Rev During the late seventeen hundreds, many tumultuous events resulted in Colonial opposition to Great Britain. The conditions of rights of the colonists will slowly be changed as the constriction of the parliament becomes…

…war was the fire the fire that fueled realism into a burning fury, since it was one of the bloodiest American wars to date. Walt Whitman wrote a piece on the war entitled Specimen days and within the piece it brutally describes the war. “…Is this indeed…

…One of my favorite trumpet players is Miles Davis. Miles Davis, "American jazz musician, a great trumpeter who as a bandleader and composer was one of the major influences on the art from the late 1940s." Miles Davis was, and still is one…

…The Hopi Native Americans "The Peaceful Ones" By: Sarah Mallory <Tab/>The Hopi tribes live in small desert villages near phoenix Arizona. The Hopi's have six towns on three high mesas, and a seventh village shared with the Tewa Indians…

…Dick Hunter does in the novel Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger. Written in 1868, Ragged Dick educates its readers about the American morals and principles of the mid-1800s. This novel illustrates the transition between the romantic-style literature of the pre…