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Decade - 1900s
This category has questions involving events, social trends, political beliefs, major discoveries, or general information related to the 1900's.
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How were cities physically reshaped in response to the early nineteenth century?
During the early nineteenth century there was a vast migration from the country into cities. This migration led to major problems in cities such as waste-management. It also helped to create urban slums. In addition to the migration from the American countryside, there were also waves of immigrants pouring into the country throuh Ellis Island, making cities, especially New York and its surrounding areas a lot more ethnically diverse. Because most of these immigrants were also poor, their coming to cities was another contributing factor to urban slums.
The social order which ranked people according to occupation and status in the 18th century?
Began to break down in the early 1800s and was replaced by an order based on wealth.
What were the living conditions in Washington D.C. like in the 1800s?
The final major strike of the late 1800s was the Pullman Strike which began at ... like Carnegie more than his employees who even at the time were regarded by many as ... Families were forced into miserable living conditions in the so-called .... A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, D.C.", ...
What did prince albert do in 1851?
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What is zipporah feldman famous for?
She is the protagonist in a book called Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl, first published in New York City in 1903 as part of the Dear America series. Author: Kathryn Lasky. Apparently based on a real-life person.
What were living conditions like in St. Petersburg Russia inthe 1800s?
it was horrible! The rule was that there was 1 family per room no acceptions. They would have up to 8 families per house. The streets were extremly overcrouded. Mnay people cought serious diseases from all the filth left on the streets. Even worse, the children were playing in the filth in their bare feet.
Who ordered the colosseum to be built and why?
The bulling of the Colosseum was commissioned by emperor Vespasian and was completed under Titus. Further modifications were made by Domitian. It was called Flavian amphitheatre because these men were Flavian emperors; that is, they belonged to the Flavii family. It was built for gladiatorial fights, animal hints, reenactments of famous battles, and mock naval battles.
An amphitheatres were arenas. They were circular or oval with seating all around them. A theatre, instead, was a semicircle.
Which statement best expresses a common Believe among nativists in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
"America is for Americans" is a statement that best expresses a common belief among nativists in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Nativism got its name from the "Native American" parties.
Who was the rebel leader in Mexico in the 1900s?
There were many, but the most important include Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata and Venustiano Carranza.
It influenced people by letting them get around faster and easier than walking.
How long did it take Horatio Nelson Jackson to drive across the US in 1903?
Dr Horatio Nelson Jackson left San Francisco in his Winton, along with his co-driver and mechanic, Sewall K. Crocker, on May 23, 1903. They arrived in New York City 63 days later, on July 26, 1903.
The full question is:
What best explains why children in American cities after the Industrialization Age often huddled together without shoes warm clothing shelter or decent food?
A. The focus was on manufacturing, not enough shoes were made
B. Many people lived in poverty due to low wages.
C. Because of protective employment laws, child laborers could no longer be employed
D. Because of the freedom women experienced in the workplace, many abandoned their children
E. Since parents' work days were guided by strict rules, they were often strict at home. As a result, their children ran away and lived on the streets.
POVERTY, from low wages along with normal reproduction rates to have large numbers of children, often left entire families homeless. There was no birth control, only abstinence, but when adults feel stress they often engage in sex for comfort (resulting in pregnancy despite living in poverty). Wages for men, often in labor jobs, were low. Women did not work in factories (not until World War II), nor outside the home. Children often pan-handled for tiny bits of donated money.
This was more often the scene in larger cities, like New York City. In rural areas, families let their girls work in the homes of others as servants, so at the working home the child had a place to sleep and food. Boys often had a harder time physically since customs restricted them from being house servants. However, more families in small towns opened their homes to other families--so 2 poor but unrelated families often lived together to try to survive.
Other families lived in makeshift tents at coal refuse dumps from coal mines because they could burn bits of coal they found in the refuse to keep warm. They often set the entire dump on fire accidentally. Many children suffered burns and died. Even people who lived in houses relied on going to the coal refuse piles (made up of clumps of clay with pieces of coal embedded in it) to scavenge for bits of coal to heat their homes and fire the cooking stove.
(As a little girl, my grandmother would pull a wooden child's wagon or sled to the refuse pile, use her hands to break apart clay clumps, and bring pieces of coal back to her mother. Her father was a coal miner, but due to low wages, sometimes hid small pieces of coal in his pockets to take home. Coal families shook out coal dust from miner's clothing and burned the coal dust to try to stay warm in their houses.)
Who invented the hippie generation?
No one invented it, but it was an outcome of several factors. The war in Vietnam, the start of the woman's movement, teen rebellion, the music, and the ideas that they could change the world through their actions.
