Essays Tagged: "mid 1800s"

Expansionism and Slavery during the 1800s

l expansion brought about heated tension between party lines and regional lines during the early to mid 1800s.When Thomas Jefferson wanted to acquire the Louisiana Purchase, the Federalist Party met h ...

(1 pages) 127 0 3.2 Aug/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Philisophical summary of Darwin's Theory of Evolution

he question then arises how can one explain or even predict theses changes in the gene pool. In the mid 1800s Charles Darwin attempted to answer this question with his theory of Natural SelectionNatur ...

(1 pages) 82 0 4.2 Sep/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

An Essay dealing with the Age of Reform, known as the Progressive Era (1820-1860). Hits on the women, penal institutions, and the temperance movement.

America has constantly seen itself change. However, no period had the type of social reform as the mid-1800s. An "Age of Reform" as it is called, brought about the most drastic movements and reforms. ...

(3 pages) 133 0 5.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Description of meteorology and different fields meterologists can work in

ncorrect, although some are still believed to be true today.Once the telegraph was invented, in the mid-1800s, meteorology was developed even further because scientists could now exchange ideas throug ... weather forecasters, who interpret given weather information, such as air pressure, temperature, humidity, and wind velocity. They use all of the data they collect to produce long and short term fore ...

(7 pages) 77 0 2.6 Mar/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Meteorology

Immigration Policy.

as been a joke for the past 200 years and we must reinforce them or pay the consequences. Since the mid 1800s the United States has amended laws to accommodate those looking for a better way of living ...

(4 pages) 244 1 3.4 Jul/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Product Recall information.

and inspection procedures.HistoryFood Production has been regulated in the United States since the mid 1800s. The Food and Drug Act, which was enacted in 1906, prohibited interstate commerce of misbr ...

(8 pages) 199 0 4.3 Oct/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Industrial Revolution: Immediate effects and Long Term Effects of the Industrial Revolution

that helped to bring it about. One cause of the Industrial revolution was growing population by the mid-1800s the population of Europe and North America was on a high rise. The rapidly growing cities ... Industrial revolution was the growing demand for textiles and other mass-produced goods. During the mid 1800s Europe and North American were slacking in products being made. Growing demands for textil ...

(2 pages) 182 0 2.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Analyzes Eminly D's poem much madness to crime and punishment

Crime and PunishmentAround about the mid 1800s Emily Dickinson hit the nail on the head with a line from a poem she wrote: Part One: Life ...

(3 pages) 49 0 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"Manchester: Industrialization and Growth"

ss and immigrants. In the 1832 Reform Bill, Manchester was granted representation in Parliament and middle-class men received the vote. After Queen Victoria's visit in 1851, Manchester was granted a r ... the vote. After Queen Victoria's visit in 1851, Manchester was granted a royal charter.The early to mid 1800s in Manchester was a time of what could be seen as prosperous growth. Between 1750 and 1850 ...

(3 pages) 53 1 4.4 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Acid Rain in our World

these factories are the main contributor to the increasing acid rain problem. It was not until the mid 1800s however, that acid rain began to be studied and questioned (http://ks.essortment.com/acidr ... tp://ks.essortment.com/acidraineffect_rqmz.htm 1). Acid rain has become more of a concern since the mid 1900s, when fishermen began to notice the reduction of the fish population in their local stream ...

(6 pages) 77 1 3.7 Jun/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Cocaine Dependency

ine was first extracted from the Erythroxylon coca bush's leaves (found in Peru and Bolivia) in the mid 1800s. In the early 1900s it became the chief stimulant drug used in tonics/elixirs to treat man ...

(3 pages) 69 0 3.7 Jun/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

The History Of Hockey

Until the mid-1980s it was generally accepted that ice hockey derived from English field hockey and Indian lac ... nglish field hockey and Indian lacrosse and was spread throughout Canada by British soldiers in the mid-1800s. Research then turned up mention of a hockeylike game, played in the early 1800s in Nova S ... The first use of a puck instead of a ball was recorded at Kingston Harbour, Ont., in 1860.Until the mid-1980s it was generally accepted that ice hockey derived from English field hockey and Indian lac ...

(3 pages) 21 0 5.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Music unions yes or no?

Music Unions-Yes or No?        In the mid-1800s musicians in the United States began exploring ways to improve their professional lives. T ...

(3 pages) 27 0 4.3 Apr/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

The Corporation - Reflection.

ertising, TV news, and corporate propaganda, illuminates the corporation's grip on our lives.In the mid-1800s the corporation emerged as a legal "person" and was originally chartered by the government ...

(2 pages) 46 0 3.7 Jan/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Fredrick Douglas in "Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass"

ls one was the Great awakening which was an emotional, revivalist movement that took place from the mid- 1740s until the 1770s, which had its greatest impact on both coastal regions and the backcountr ... d it preached the doctrines of work and salvation to all, the revivalist movement took place in the mid-1800s and helped people adjusts control to their daily lives both slaves and slave owners. In th ...

(4 pages) 134 0 4.7 Mar/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Spiritulaity in Art

are Vincent Van Gogh and Ronnie Tjampitjinpa. Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch painter who lived in the mid 1800s, he was a post-impressionist. Van Gogh painted two chairs, his own chair and the chair of ...

(6 pages) 48 0 3.0 Oct/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Design Arts

Summary Of The Communist Manifesto

ifesto is a document written by Karl Marx, with the help of Friedrich Engels. It was written in the mid 1800s and is concerned with the inequalities in the social classes of the time. It is a story ab ...

(2 pages) 75 0 0.0 Jul/2001

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Summary Of Fires Of Jubilee

of Nat Turner and his systematic and militaristic slave revolt against Virginia slave owners in the mid-1800s. The story is constructed in an incredibly accurate and historically chronological style. ...

(1 pages) 53 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Huckleberry Finn

tures of Huckleberry Finn' is a novel and is based on a young boys coming of age in Missouri in the mid 1800s. In the beginning Huck seems very set in the southern anti-black ways, however as the stor ...

(6 pages) 6 0 0.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Russian Revolution

sheviks to take power as a Communist party that would later become a totalitary dictatorship.In the mid 1800s, Karl Marx, a German philosopher, founded communism, and wrote a book on what it was. Many ...

(2 pages) 15 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History