New York in the 1850s

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In the decade before the Civil War, in addition to the problem of slavery, New Yorker still had many ideas. In the last two decades, industrialization has revolutionized the city, immigrants needed for labor are spreading "foreign" culture on our banks, the rising middle class "destroying" the upper class of Europe It is. Let's join us and learn about the city with your own difficult problems

One was involved in advocacy of Fowler's octagon and vegetarian ideology - British named Henry Club who moved to New York in the 1950s. When abolition and vegetarianism were closely related, the club was primarily a serious abolitionist in any way. Under the guidance of the New York Tribune, under the guidance of his founder, abolitionist Horrors Greeley, he compared the harsh experience of alcoholism and the adoption of vegetarianism. "The other conditions are the same, the strict vegetarian diet is ten years longer than the habitual carnivor, and on average it is less than half like a carnivore."

By the 1950's the American newspaper industry came to be dominated by prominent editors such as Horace Greeley in New York Tribune, James Gordon Bennett in New York Herald, Henry J. Raymond in New York Times. Quality newspapers are beginning to be published in major cities and many large cities. By the end of the nineteenth century, after a slow but steady increase, the newspaper industry was suddenly motivated by the strategies of two duel editors Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. The two men participated in the so-called yellow journalism, they made a newspaper an important part of American daily life, participated in a circulatory war.