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Há 1 dia · By the 1890s, many Americans, particularly from the ranks of the well-off, white, and native-born, considered immigration to pose a serious danger to the nation's health and security. In 1893 a group formed the Immigration Restriction League, and it and other similarly-inclined organizations began to press Congress for severe ...
Há 2 dias · In United States history, the Gilded Age is described as the period from about the 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction Era and the Progressive Era. It was named after an 1873 Mark Twain novel by historians in the 1920s who saw this interval of economic expansion as an era of materialistic excesses ...
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Há 2 dias · In 1860, there were 4.5 million Americans of Afro-american descent, 4 million of which were slaves, worth $3 billion. They were mainly owned by southern planters of cotton and sugarcane. An estimated 60% of the value of farms in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina was in slaves, with less than a third in land ...
19 de abr. de 2024 · By Women, for Women: American Art Posters of the 1890s. How did women emerge as active creators of art and visual culture in the nineteenth century? Shannon Vittoria. April 19. In November 1898, the London-based periodical The Poster published its first and only article to focus on the work of a woman artist.
17 de abr. de 2024 · The Populists had emerged as a viable third party in the 1890 midterm elections when they captured nine congressional seats and won impressive victories in state and local politics.
8 de mai. de 2024 · Foreign Policy. by Carl Schurz. January 4, 1899. Edited and introduced by Stephen F. Knott. Study Questions. Schurz observed that the United States “cannot long play the king over subject populations without creating within itself ways of thinking and habits of action most dangerous to its own vitality.”
1 de mai. de 2024 · Ida B. Wells-Barnett, American journalist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She later was active in promoting justice for African Americans and founded (1910) what was possibly the first Black women’s suffrage group, Chicago’s Alpha Suffrage Club.
