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Anglo-Saxonism is a cultural belief system developed by British and American intellectuals, politicians, and academics in the 19th century. Racialized Anglo-Saxonism contained both competing and intersecting doctrines, such as Victorian era Old Northernism and the Teutonic germ theory which it relied upon in appropriating Germanic (particularly Norse) cultural and racial origins for the Anglo ...
A succession of laws on child labour, the Factory Acts, were passed in the UK in the 19th century. Children younger than 9 were not allowed to work, those aged 9–16 could work 12 hours per day per the Cotton Mills Act. In 1856, the law permitted child labour past age 9, for 60 hours per week, night or day.
During the 19th century, some women began to ask for, demand, and then agitate and demonstrate for the right to vote – the right to participate in their government and its law-making. Other women opposed suffrage, like Helen Kendrick Johnson , who argued in the 1897 pamphlet Woman and the Republic that women could achieve legal and economic equality without having the vote. [160]
t. e. Scientific racism, sometimes termed biological racism, is the pseudoscientific belief that the human species can be subdivided into biologically distinct taxa called "races", [1] [2] [3] and that empirical evidence exists to support or justify racism ( racial discrimination ), racial inferiority, or racial superiority.
American election campaigns in the 19th century. Election Day in Philadelphia (1815) by John Lewis Krimmel, picturing the site of Independence Hall [1] and demonstrating the importance of elections as public occasions. In the 19th century, a number of new methods for conducting American election campaigns developed in the United States.
In the early 19th century the Industrial Revolution was in full swing in Britain, France, and Belgium. The various small federal states in Germany developed only slowly and independently as competition was strong. Early investments for the railway network during the 1830s came almost exclusively from private hands.
Furniture refers to objects intended to support various human activities such as seating (e.g., stools, chairs, and sofas ), eating ( tables ), storing items, working, and sleeping (e.g., beds and hammocks ). Furniture is also used to hold objects at a convenient height for work (as horizontal surfaces above the ground, such as tables and desks ...
