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What was everyday life like for the average American in the 1890s? I'm interested in writing a book set in 1890s USA and wish to know (and be given sources to read) what everyday life was like for the average American (both men and women) in the 1890s. If sources can be provided on the slang common at the time, that too would be appreciated. 1.
Há 2 dias · Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was an American politician who served as the 23rd president of the United States from 1889 to 1893. He was a member of the Harrison family of Virginia —a grandson of the ninth president, William Henry Harrison, and a great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison V, a Founding Father.
Há 5 dias · The Development of the Industrial U.S. (1870-1900): National Archives. Hundreds of digitized primary sources pertaining to the development of the Industrial U.S. (1870-1900). The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930): National Archives. Hundreds of digitized primary sources pertaining to the emergence of Modern America (1890-1930).
- Mikha Mitchell
- 2016
Há 3 dias · Chicago's Home Insurance Building, often considered the world's first skyscraper, was completed in 1885 APA Building (1890) in Melbourne, Australia, an example of an early skyscraper outside of North America. There is academic disagreement over which building should be considered the first skyscraper.
Há 4 dias · Great Migration, in U.S. history, the widespread migration of African Americans in the 20th century from rural communities in the South to large cities in the North and West. It is estimated that from 1916 to 1970 some six million black Southerners relocated as part of the Great Migration.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- The Great Migration was the movement of some six million African Americans from rural areas of the Southern states of the United States to urban ar...
- Many African Americans in the South found themselves trapped in sharecropping jobs and other forms of debt peonage with no hope of improvement in t...
- The greater economic and educational opportunities led to an explosion of artistic expression in music and literature. Migrants and their children...
Há 4 dias · The Ferris wheel (invented by G.W.G. Ferris, a Pittsburgh engineer) and a dazzling new wonder—electricity—were presented for the first time in America. Electricity had been introduced and exploited at the Paris Exposition of 1889, but in 1893 it was still unfamiliar to most Americans.
Há 5 dias · history of Latin America, history of the region from the pre- Columbian period and including colonization by the Spanish and Portuguese beginning in the 15th century, the 19th-century wars of independence, and developments to the end of the 20th century.
