... an older order. Most reformers were intelligent, inspired idealists. The optimistic promises of the Second Great Awakening inspired many people to fight against evils. Women's Roles and Rights Starting the nineteenth century, the U.S. was still a man's world. A wife was supposed to immerse herself in her home and subordinate herself to her husband. Women could note vote, could be legally beaten, and could ... not retain property titles when she was married. Even then, American women were still being treated better than European women. Gender differences were strongly emphasized in ninet...

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... , adultery, statutory rape (death sentence optional), man stealing, perjury in a capital trial, and rebellion (Worsnop 200). Executions were public displays until the mid-nineteenth century. It was believed that public display would by example deter crime. In the early nineteenth century, public hangings were occasions for sadistic celebrations where thieves and pickpockets joined the onlookers in merriment (Worsnop 200). Between 1930 and 1950, executions ... that he might forfeit his own life in return" with a 1 in 25 chance, whereas in 1992 that probability dropped to 1 in 625(Tucker 2...

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... war came to be. The issue of slavery is significant and affected many other aspects of American life, specifically the culture of the South. While America modernized in the mid nineteenth century "the slave states remained overwhelmingly rural and agricultural." This agricultural society left the South with a stronger reliability on the institution of slavery than the more modern Northern states. Cotton was ... and cultural differences led to four years of war. Lincoln believed that it was a battle of right and wrong. Alexander Stephens believed that the war was a result of opposing pri...

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... about the system of capital punishment in the colonial times due to the inadequate information kept at the time as well as lost documents. In the early part of the nineteenth century, many states lowered the number of executions they performed and built state penitentiaries to hold criminals. In 1834, Pennsylvania became the first state to stop public executions and move them ... for all crimes except treason. (http://teacher.deathpenaltyinfo.msu.edu/). Later, Rhode Island and Wisconsin would get rid of the death penalty for all crimes. By the end of the century Venezuela, Portugal, Net...

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... Tegucigalpa. It soon became a rival city to Comayagua, the most important town at the time. The silver boom peaked in 1584 and economic depression returned shortly after. In the early nineteenth century, the Spanish power went into rapid decline. In 1812 many disturbances broke out in Comayagua and Tegucigalpa. The rivalry helped to destroy the Spanish influence in Honduras. Civil war threatened ... ...

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... brought many social evils. One of possibly the most worse of the social issues happens to be the unfair treatment of children in labor. Child Labor was a scandal of the nineteenth century. Child Labor is the employment of children working under the age of physical maturity (Hine, index). Children would start work in mills, coal mines, and factories as young as 5 years ... ...

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... their race in positive terms, and reevaluating America's social and cultural values. (Scully, 119-121). The Civil Rights Act of 1968 was the first open-housing law of the twentieth century. It sought to end all practices that result in the residential segregation of blacks, primarily in poor neighborhoods. The act prohibited discrimination in about 90% of all housing. Single family ... abort. It would outlaw state laws that prohibit abortions. The passage of the bill would ensure the reproductive rights guarantees of Roe V. Wade. (Weiss, 770-772). Not satisfied with the Nineteenth Amend...

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