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…In the late 1800's and early 1900's there were massive waves of immigration to America. These new immigrants were largely Italians, Hungarians, Jews, Serbians, Irish, and Slovaks. Fleeing such hardships as poverty, religious persecution…

…. The right to vote was given to blacks in the Fifteenth Amendment. Thomas Nast depicts that the newly emancipated black people are no threat to the whites because they’ve only escaped slavery to come into poverty. In a way, Nast seems to support slavery, he…

…by continuing to pursue economic policies that reduced poverty, such as allowing workers to search for jobs.…

…had a traditional personal name (Qiu) and a formal name (Zhoghi). Confucius's father died shortly after Confucius's birth. His family fell into relative poverty, and Confucius joined a growing class of impoverished descendants of aristocrats who made…

…had a traditional personal name (Qiu) and a formal name (Zhoghi). Confucius's father died shortly after Confucius's birth. His family fell into relative poverty, and Confucius joined a growing class of impoverished descendants of aristocrats who made…

…a traditional personal name (Qiu) and a formal name (Zhoghi). Confucius's father died shortly after Confucius's birth. His family fell into relative poverty, and Confucius joined a growing class of impoverished descendants of aristocrats who made their careers…

…, separating church and state, was adopted. This is the beginning to spain’s rise from repression. At the start of the republic nearly half the people of spain were illiterate. Poverty was everywhere, and industrial wages were low. In Madrid many workers had…

…products that would be available. But through all this good that was coming out was the poor,¹¹poverty in the midst of plenty¹¹. A industry that was hit probably the hardest was agriculture when prices plummeted. But the most defining event of the twenties…

…a communist economy. The result was (and is) widespreading poverty and misery for the people. The communist took away basic freedoms, including our freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. Many people died in the re-education camps and many other were executed…

…Maryanne Ralph Waldo Emerson President at birth: Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809 President at death: Chester A. Arthur 1881-1885: Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on May 25, 1803 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was born into a family of poverty. His father…