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Emancipation: promise and poverty. For African Americans in the South, life after slavery was a world transformed. Gone were the brutalities and indignities of slave life, the whippings and sexual assaults, the selling and forcible relocation of family members, the denial of education, wages, legal marriage, homeownership, and more.
5 de ene. de 2021 · The typical denominations were: 25¢, 50¢, $1, $2.50, $5, $10, $20 and even $50 coins (the latter were also called “slugs”). Private minted gold coins were quickly downgraded from their face value and did not share equal worth to the US minted coins of the same denominations through the remainder of the 1850s.
19 de mar. de 2024 · By: Adam Burns. While railroads continued their rapid expansion during the 1870s the decade nevertheless contained its share of issues; 1873's financial panic crippled America's economy while the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 left an ugly scar on the industry. Despite these setbacks, historian John Stover notes in his book, " The Routledge ...
by Sandie Angulo Chen. Life in the 1800’s in America was very different than it is today. The War of 1812 concluded in 1815, and just until then, the United States was going to start developing a vast transportation system, a national bank, and interstate trade. The economy soon blossomed, and canals, roads, cities, and industrialization ...
Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone revolutionized communications, while Thomas Edison’s pioneering work in the uses of electricity would transform US factories. However, each of these inventions of the 1870s, with the exception of barbed wire, would not drastically alter American life until the turn of the century.
1 de sept. de 2022 · Together, the profiles show the breadth of Philadelphia society in early America. Part 1 examines the lives of three religious figures: Anthony Benezet, Henry Muhlenberg, and William White, showing “how people built networks across religious and ethnic boundaries to create movements for civic progress” (p. 11).
A combination of factors contributed to the debilitating Panic of 1873, which triggered what the public referred to at the time as the “Great Depression” of the 1870s. Most notably, the railroad boom that had occurred from 1840 to 1870 was rapidly coming to a close.
