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Victorian Era: America
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In America, the Victorian era is captured in the gun-slinging, trail-blazing culture of the "Wild West", especially during the gold rush of the late 1840s. The period was ... marked by tragedies such as the forced relocation of the Native American peoples along the Trail of Tears in 1838 and the war with Mexico over the Western frontier during the 1840s. Perhaps the most devastating event of the era was the American Civil War that nearly ravaged an entire nation in the 1860s. Prompted by the abolitionist efforts of Frederick Douglass (pictured at left), Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, and John Brown, the Northern Union and South Confederacy launched battle at Fort Sumter in 1861. For nearly four years, the North and South engaged in a war that claimed the lives of over half a million Americans. The war finally ended in 1865, with the surrender of the Confederacy and the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery.
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A disease that is familiar to Americans who read Victorian-era novels is making a modern comeback, in versions that are resistant to today’s advanced medical technologies. Why is it spreading, and who is vulnerable? FSM Contributing Editor Pam Meister has a report that will stun you.
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One of the most infamous eras of prostitution was that of Victorian Age. Sims (1910) cited Babylonian temple prostitution as equivalent to the plight of girls at the turn of the 20th century. As in all times the street children of the Victorian age survived by thievery and prostitution (Rush, 1980, p.63). Of nearly 2,600 prostitutes arrested in Paris 1,500 were minors (Bebel, cited in Rush). America traders on the West Coast purchased small Chinese girls and young American girls to resell by the evening. Rush wrote about the fate of many young English girls:
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