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How did bank runs affect the economy during the Great Depression? How did immigration affect the Industrial Revolution? What was one effect of the Great Depression in cities and towns? How were immigrants treated during the Gilded Age? How did the Worldwide Great Depression cause social and e...
workers' union that was first established as a secret organization in 1869 by Uriah Smith Stephens. The original name of the organization was the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor. They reached the height of their power by 1886, although by 1890 the membership was ...
The passenger ship industry flourished in the late 1800s and early 1900s, courtesy of the steam engine and of the growing number of American immigrants crowding ocean liners. Trans-Atlantic passage was still primarily one way, although affluent passengers traveled back and forth between England and...
Ku Klux Klan is a white supremacist terrorist group in the United States. Historians view the group as having three distinct eras in its existence and break the history of the organization into the First Klan (1865-1872), the Second Klan (1915-1944), and the Third Klan (1950-Present)....
in the U.S., and has received limited consideration in health research among Black women. Additionally, less is known regarding how ethnicity shapes John Henryism and health processes among Black women specifically. Therefore, the present study examined the association between John Henryism and self...
Lowell hadn’t simply deemed four immigrants eligible for naturalization; he bestowed upon Armenians the juridical distinction of whiteness for the first time. A few months later, Congress codified Lowell’s decision, decreeing that Armenians, along with Assyrians and Jews, were exceptions to the...
The American dream also offers the promise that the circumstances of someone's birth—including whether they were born American citizens or immigrants—do not completely determine their future. Disadvantages Terming the concept a "dream" also carries with it the notion that these ideals aren't nece...
Down on the East Side, far from the Broadway of Arnold Rothstein’s New York, Lillian Lieben and Antonia Rolnick lived on “Jewish Broadway,” or Grand Street. Back in 1900, the New York Tribune wrote that “Grand Street is Broadway plus Fifth Avenue, on
1825>{Homeopathy}German immigrants brought homeopathy to America. Homeopathy is an alternative system of medical practice based on the principle that drugs that produce in a healthy person the same pathological effects that are symptomatic of the disease, can cure diseases. It had its greatest popula...