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    In the late 1800's, farmers believed that the railroad companies were strangling away their profits and the government was in favor of big business thus justifying their feelings of discontent.". The farmers had every right to be upset about their situation because the government saw a need for reform which alludes to the fact that problems existed, the railroads had a monopoly on shipping which raised costs and affected profit margins, the value of crops had deflated, and big business was hostile

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    Urbanization in the United States in the late nineteenth century resulted from a number of factors, in particular the rise of commercial activity following the Civil War and the industrialization of the period. During that post-bellum period, cities grew along with a rising population of those residing in the cities. Although those two factors might, at first, appear to be the same, they are, in fact, different. In one early study from immediately after the period (Jefferson, 1915), scholars observed

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    In the late nineteenth-century the European nations, the United States, and Japan were now intending to own considerable amounts of the world. This came about because of the demand of industrial resources and business antagonism for new market inflamed competition for African and Asian territory. In 1876 the British Government announced that they were an empire, after seizing India. Many other governments at this time were following the British government. These event are what started imperialism

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    Columbus, who discovered America in the late 15th century and early 16th century. In 1531, tobacco was brought back to Europe and was first planted in Santo. Domingo (now part of the Republic of Dominique) and later spread throughout Europe. In the seventeenth century, cigarettes also followed the westerners to Asia. If ealier the use of cigarettes was relatively diversified from vacuum aspiration to smoking, chewing and inhaling, in the second half of the nineteenth century, when tobalco was manufactured

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    Have you ever thought how was gymnastics a sport and what it means well in this paper that I have written for you is the history of gymnastics, this paper talks about how gymnastics was in the late nineteenth century. I will be telling you about the history of gymnastics, the history of men’s gymnastics, the history of women’s gymnastics, and some facts about gymnastics. I will also be talking about how the different events changed  throughout the years. The last thing I will be talking about is

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    The industrial revolution of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century served as the impetus to the creation of new technologies that helped interconnect various parts of the world. In essence, technology was crucial to the development of a globalized economy. With the development of a global economy companies began to expand beyond national borders and cater to citizens around the world by becoming multinational corporations. These now global companies have not only expanded their markets

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    During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century America was facing the question of should the United States be an imperialist power or not. Imperialism is when a strong country will extend their influence and power to a country with lesser strength. American imperialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century was crucial for American growth because of the beliefs in cultural and racial superiority among white Americans and the naval power that America would gain with more locations

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    At the point when the Period of Dominion started in 1875, it affected Africa from multiple points of view. No place was the opposition for provinces more extraordinary than in Africa. Europeans followed North and South Africa part up the mainland. Egypt and Sudan were assumed control by England to acquire the Suez Trench. Colonialism added to Africa's economy and transformed it into a landmass of provinces. Until well into the 1800's Africa was generally obscure to Europeans. They controlled under

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    Living in the city in the late nineteenth century had a good amount of positive and negative aspects. One of the positives was that there were very many new job opportunities with all the factories and construction being built. More means of transportation were available in the city, such as trolleys, railroads, and steam driven cars. There was a common focus of increasing and improving the museums, art galleries, amusement parks, and skyscrapers. Many people in the city were ready to move forward

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    3. How and why was the West transformed in the late nineteenth century? How did these changes affect the people living in the West? How did the changes in the West transform America? In the late nineteenth century, the rise of an industrial America took the country by storm. New innovations, and the development of steel manufacturing, petroleum refining, and the expansion of railroads, changed the nation’s economy and the lifestyle of the people. The names of Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller

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