Category Archives: February 23 Assignment
Hide Your Kids ! Hide Your Wife ! Hide Your Husband! They killing everybody out here!!!
One of the main themes in the 1800’s was the incredible amount of deaths that was increasing per year.Most of these deaths were happening in the rural south but doesn’t mean that the main city didn’t have a large number of deaths as well. … Continue reading
Pick-pocketing 101
With the exponentially growing population of Manhattan, violence was the direct effect which rose from the poor neighborhoods of the 19th century. With a city with poor protection, surrounding people began to worry about the growing number of thieves running … Continue reading
The police is here, no worry?
Between 1830 and 1860, population growth was one of the primary factors in crimes that happened in New York. The robbers spread terror, whether in urban or rural town, they were stealing and killing. “Although nearly one-fourth of the City’s … Continue reading
What’s that Smell?
Personal hygiene is clearly a strong issue in today’s society. However, during the 1830’s there was no such thing as being clean. In fact, how can the citizens expect to be well groomed if their city itself was not? There … Continue reading
Women in Politics
Besides the factory development and many other development during 1176- 1860, the important change that took place in nineteenth century was the participation of women in the politics. the special participation was in Washington D. C. The expansion of participation in … Continue reading
Paper $ is introduced
Merchants were glad that they were free of British rule, however economic problems were now occuring. The middle and lower classes had shortages in housing and goods. Prices were also beginning to increase as well as unemployment and rent. Between the years … Continue reading
Cities Growing from Factories
The utilization of the factory system is a significant factor in the change and transformation of cities. Before the 1840s, their were two types of manufacture products. One type falls into the category of consumer items, such as “refined sugar, … Continue reading
Factories Changed the Way of Life
Urban industrialism effected nearly every profession and was a huge change in everyday life. Artisans that usually custom made shoes, tools, furniture, wagons etc. for specific customers were pretty much run out of business over time. There was no way … Continue reading
Assignment due 2/23
Reading: Chudacoff & Smith: read assigned sections; Homberger: read entire download from Readings page; Koeppel: skim chapters 4 and 8, read epilogue carefully; Johnson: read introduction carefully; skim chapter 2 and conclusion Post: Pick one topic or theme mentioned in … Continue reading