By creating a closed, members-only financial marketplace, the Buttonwood Agreement created the foundations of theNew York Stock Exchange(NYSE), although the exchange would not be formally organized and given a constitution for another quarter of a century.1 By 1793, the ranks of New York brokers...
Frederick Douglass was the most prominent and famous African-American of the 19th century. Born in 1817, he escaped slavery in 1838 and married his first wife shortly thereafter. He was a prominent opponent of slavery, supported equal rights for women, and was a fervent Christian. He spent th...
Frederick Douglass gained fame in the United States during the nineteenth century as one of the most well-known opponents of slavery. Born in Maryland in either 1817 or 1818, Douglass escaped slavery in 1838. Answer and Explanation: According to Douglass in his autobiography, a couple things gav...
Balkanization is a term used to describe the division or fragmentation of a larger sovereign state or region into smaller, often ethnically similar, regions or states. First coined in the early 19th century, the term comes from the breakup of the Balkan Peninsula, which was ruled almost entirely...
Throughout history, art movements have been created in response to their predecessors. So, in the 18th century, while the extravagance ofRococoandBaroque artwere still thriving in Europe, another style was born with very different values. Established in the mid-1700s, theNeoclassical movementis de...
Serial Set have undergone considerable transformation since its beginning in 1817. This study examines the composition of the Set at various points in time. During the nineteenth century numerous executive branch documents were included in the Serial Set, so that the early Serial Set is a large ...
In the early 19th century the two dominant political parties, the Jeffersonian Republicans and the Federalists, had many opposing beliefs. With respect to the federal constitution, the Jeffersonian Republicans were viewed as strict constructionists who were opposed to the broad and lenient constructionis...
David Ricardo was an 18th-century English economist renowned for his contributions to economic theory. He developed the comparative advantage theory, labor theory of value, and the theory of rents, which have founded other schools of thought and form the basis of current economic policies and decis...
The Gothic style, dating between the 12th century and 16th century, began in France and eventually spread throughout the rest of Europe. An example of the first true Gothic church was St. Denis of Paris. Now, it is considered one of our finest artistic periods, but at the time, the ter...
Jane Austen was a well-known novelist of the early nineteenth century, publishing four novels during her lifetime and writing more. She was born on December 16, 1775, and died on July 18, 1817. As a child she attended Reading Abbey Girls' School, but spent the majority of her life livi...