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2/3/15 8:01 AMMark Twain satirized Battle Hymn of Republic (Document) Look for TEST
Americas Destiny (1900)Albert BeveridgeDESTINY, we have no control over it, we must do it. Its our DUTY to annexChina is a valuable market that will sustain AmericaOPPORTUNITY (money)MISSION of our raceAmerican civilization needs to be universal. America is the greatest civilization and needs to be spreadCHOSEN by god to save a civilization. Save Philippines.Everything in this document leads back to commerceWe are going to war in the Philippines to secure our market
Eugen SandowVictorian-era body builderT. Roosevelt worried that American men are getting weakGoing to places such as Coney Island (cheap amusemants)Roosevelts social values about strong men = Views on foreign policy
Progressive Era (Late 19th century WWI)MuckrackingCartoons that question societyPuck MagazineRead by new emerging middle class
Why Do We Want To Export To China?Overproduction of goods in U.S.Need for new marketsFarmersRequire new markets for quick production of goods that new farming practices produce(Beveredge)
DEFINE THE DEBATE (Imperialist vs. Anti-Imperialist)Moodle Documents
Anti-Imperialist League (1899) Against Declaration of Independence and Constitution to annex Philippines
Spanish-American War (1898)
Politicians getting mixed business interests and mixed requests about annexation (i.e. Hawaii and sugar refinement)
Platt and Teller Amendment
ImperialismWe need to guide the lesser people towards civilization (whites vs. non-whites)
TELLER We have no territorial interests in Cuba. Some thought the spirit of the amendment meant no territorial annexation anywhereSome took it literally and only protected Cuba
SAYS THAT HE WANTS STUDENTS TO COME INTO THIS CLASS WITH A BLANK SLATE (LIKE A CHINESE HISTORY CLASS) BUT SAYS HE HOPES WE KNOW THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE & CONSTITUTION (INALIENABLE RIGHTS, ETC.)
E. Alquinado (18XX)Only 2% of Americans are going to college, E. Alquinado is well educatedThere is no justice or liberty in American policyWants to ensure that safe means are used
Woodrow Wilson (pg. 95)Pledges the U.S. will never take another foot of territory by conquestU.S. shall devote herself to showing that she can make honorable and useful progress with current territory
READ TRUE WOMANHOOD (Jan. 27)Debate ongoing about Womans roleWilson reluctant to jump onto the Womans revolution
HISTORY 1522/3/15 8:01 AM
QUIZ:Great MigrationGovernment PropagandaRobert LaFouletteGeorge CreelLeague of Nations
WWI started with assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Black Hand of Serbia
United States doesnt have a treaty at beginning of war to drag them into it
Midwest Republicans will be isolationists
Washington and Monroe Doctorine
Breweries (Germans)
There are many conflicts of allegiance within the U.S. because of new immigration and citizenship
Wilson gets elected on the promise of keeping America out of war
American Business is shipping to both sides of the warBritish are boarding American ships by setting up a blockade around Germany and taking our goodsGermans set up submarines and are sinking American ships
Talk about WWI in relation to Progressivism (PIE)
Various agencies and labor unions to affect commerce. #1 is war effort. Go on strike and have the government intervene for the laborers.
Trying to direct capital & public opinion
Search for chaos. Search for order.
WWII breaks isolationismCreates international organizationsWWI4/16/15 9:14 AM
Paradoxes and Contradictions, Affluence and AnxietyContradiction is an element of paradox
FordAnti-SemanticDealers required to have the Ford Newspapers outEveryone should learn old traditional danceFord hates urban change, but he is responsible for the growing changes paradoxKid grew up and everyone he knew, none of their parents had English as their first language
Harry Bennet
Ford Factory PoliciesNot allowed to talkNot allowed to go to bathroom
Social Gospel Ask what Jesus would do?
Aimee Semple McPherson POSSIBLE TEST DISCUSSIONFuses fundamentalism with modern Hollywood sex appealMinister/PreacherGirls can participate in new culture, use dope and cold cream, Converted at age 17 by a preacher whom she later marriedLearned religious entertainment as well as traditionalSorta like a televangelist, early version, entertainerHad a flair for dramatic, marketed her attributes (looks and drama) into a religious businessHad college of her own, oversees missionariesChristian publishing companyRadio transmitter was so strong that it interfered with other stations, KFSGBob ShulerDrowned at the beach?Amy reappeared, who said she was kidnapped by MexicansSeen in an affair in Carmelo, CA.
1919? worst year ever, depends on who you are (strike wave)Strikers called red, pained red, commiesHarding AdministrationVeterans hospital scandals(Bolshevik Revolution in Russia during WWI)
Diversity U.S. most diverse, most of people German immigrants why women shouldnt vote, diluting vote, blacks, women
1920 reemergence on KKK, control gov. of Oregon and one otherKKK, restrict immigration to keep WASPs in power
Hollywood stars
Paradox & ContradictionBlack folks couldnt go to see black musiciansHarding serving, buying alcohol in White House w/ taxpayer dollarsProhibition and the Green Door in Chicago 1921
Theta Bera?
THE WANDERERParamount PicturesLots of anxiety about corporationsAFFLUENCE, ANXIETY, PARADOX & CONTRADICTIONSWhy are they advertising the company?They want you to buy the company, tooSet in ancient times (Babylon)You in the 1920s are also a wandererYouve strayed away from old ideals, now youre going to speakeasies and etc.Paramount saying, look, were not bad. We can do more than the little guy and our product is goodCombining Fundamentalism and Hollywood
Evolution DebateWilliams J. Bryan, DemocratJohn ScopesBroke law in Tennessee, taught evolution in High SchoolPersecuted by Williams J. Bryan, assigned by stateDefended by (NY?) Urban atheist lawyer, Clarence Darrell
Chain StoresBig business controls local Chamber of Commerce and gov.Little merchants being chased out by bigger stores#anxiety
(B)Ponzi?, Charles - swindlercouldnt prove they were guiltytraded currencies in different countriesTold people they could get rich with him50% return in 90 days, give $100,000 and get back $150,000people would reinvestTake money from other investors and give it to other investors, then people will reinvestPYRAMID SCHEMEAs long as the base gets bigger, youre fine
HIST 152 1920s2/3/15 8:01 AM
Roosevelt wins HUGE election (1936)
Hoover (1928)
FDR (1932, 1936, 1940, 1944)
Roosevelt didnt want to create a class of people who became dependent on the Federal Government for their livelihood
Buy stocks on margin?Brokers loaning money to buyersBrokers borrow money from banksMargin call broker can just sell stock and then tell buyers afterBrokers panic selling during stock market crash
Bubbles.? Creating bubbles with loans, money.. Housing bubble of 2008
Hoover Progressive Republican, Lassiez-faire died in the early 20th century
Contradictions. Government helping produce hogs, then destroy them to lower supply.
PROBLEM:Overproduction?
RELIEF, RECOVERY, REFORMRECOVERY doesnt come from New Deal, but there is RELEF and REFORM
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (1932)Modeled on the War Finance Corporation of WWIMade Gov. loans to companies to keep them operating (bankers), trying to keep banks solvent
Hoover created (1931)(Something) public works programSpent money at Brooklyn Navy yardCreating things for a naval area Or something
Bonus Army (1932), FDRAfter WWI, Congress passes a bonus bill for veteransVets begin to travel to Washington D.C.General MacArthur ends up firing on the Bonus ArmyVets not violent. In a silent protest that they wanted their bonus NOWHoover was president when this happened
When Roosevelt first enters office, RECOVERY is the first focus, because RELIEF and REFORM wont be needed.
Roosevelt Bank Holiday (1933)Banks are closed for like 4 days, then the Federal Government comes in a inspects the bank
FDIC (1933)Say, Weve inspected this bank, and its sound USE THIS BANK, kind of like FOOD INSPECTION ACT and European markets buying American meat againAlso says, The Federal Government will ensure your money in these banks
Gov. starts saying that the will buy pay farmers to take land OUT of productionI think this is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (1933)
National Recovery Administration (NRA) and Section 7a (1933)All of these (FDIC, AAA, NRA) are all about businessAn attempt to eliminate "cut-throat competition" by bringing industry, labor and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set pricesSection 7a Workers have the right to organize in a unionStrike wave (1934)Strikes to form a populous/group to
Wagner Act (1935)Roosevelt signs it because its what the PEOPLE want
1930s3/17/15 8:01 AM
THE CLASS I MISSED: (WWII)No-no boy?Soviets ally of U.S. at end of WWIISleeping car porters? (Pullman?)Institutionalized racismPorter, organized 1000 person march on WashingtonWanted Roosevelt to issue E.O. to erase racism in armed forcesRoosevelt refuses, but did pass E.O. 8802, which states Defense contractors could not discriminate against people because of raceIncludes private companies who want to sign contracts with the gov.Porter doesnt march on Washington1948, Truman desegregates militaryZoot Suit, Mexicans, where industry grows, immigration growsThe Office of War Information filmsPropagandaWoman veterans enjoyed same benefits as male benefits, but still discriminatedBecause of the war, not depression, that government has such big influenceTechnological advancement agent orangeDAWN OF THE NUCLEAR AGE The potential for nuclear warfare develops All the testing that happens influences American societyLARGE INCREASES IN FED. POLICY Defense spending Gov. agencies
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1) DEVELOPMENT OF IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY2) IDEOLOGICAL CONTRADICTIONS3) POSTWAR PROSPERITY4) THE COLD WAR
Rise of Imperial PresidencyObtain Pentagon, Secretary of DefenseForeign policy big influence on modern government (also, executive power)
War crushed Japanese and German economiesU.S. exited war in a very privileged position
Those in spheres, became a part of that economy (Soviet sphere, American sphere)
Joseph McCarthy Senator (cold war?)
United Nations developed during Cold WarHad permanent members
FOREIGN POLICYCivil war develops in GreeceThe enemy of my enemy is my friendBritish stop investing in Greece, stop funding regime in GreeceNLF, received support from Josef Tito?Stalin and Tito both communists, Stalin didnt like Tito1940, We cannot expect stability without consistent international trade, some secretary of trade somethingBoth U.S. and Soviets see each other as wanting global domination(American McCarthy hearings?)McCarthy created places where communists might beU.S. sends aid to places where they believe are resisting influence from outside agitators, etc.Something about Greece and running their foreign economy, Greece, Truman paints portrait of Free institution (freedom) VS. (something) (communism) (Truman says this other is repression, control of media, etc.) IDEOLOGICAL CONTRADICTIONS
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Adali Stevenson Democratic candidate against Eisenhower (52 & 56)Women need to save the homeNeed to be content thereWe have crisis domesticity?
Increasing amount of people gained power to consumeFamilies starting to be able to survive on one salary households
6 kids as a minimum production goal...?
in 1870 less than 2% of 18-21 year olds attended college1970 its 40%
Look up tax rates in the 20th century1929 5% earned 20% of natl income?
of farmers in poverty
40s 60s number of blacks living outside the south doubledby 1960, DC became predominately black, and whites moved to suburbs
Post War Red ScareWhittaker Chambers, journalistTold House on American Activities CommitteesUsed to be a part of a Soviet spy groupProvided papers, called Pumpkin PapersEvidence Hist was working for spysHuack pressured himArthur Miller Crucible Compared Salem Witch Trials to communist hearingsBelieved people had a right to their political views no matter what they wereHollywood 10, accused of being communistsRosenberg passed secrets to the sovietsMcCarthy Era, this is all encompassing, just out of orderMcCarthyismBilly GrahamMerged fear of Armageddon with the _____1957, communism masterminded by SatanAnti-communism fused with American religion
Within 1950 that Congress found God1954 Eisenhower.Preacher liked doing religious politicsSaid One Nation Under God be added into the pledge of allegianceadding would differentiate between America and RussiansBuilding a prayer room attached to CongressEisenhower not that religiousFall 1949, two days after we see Russians have an atomic bomb
1950 - 55% of people in churches, 1956 62%
Laws passed against atheists and agnostics, not able to serve for public office or adopt
Desegregated military 1948
Jackie Robinson, 1947
NAACP, African Americans who sought to end discrimination through litigationUsed Brown vs. BoardSegregation harms children, psychologically, etc.Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren
Arkansas, Central High SchoolGovernor puts Natl Guard under his authority to bar entrance to black studentsWithin 24 hours, President puts Natl Guard under his authority to get black students into school
States started closing public schools and would build private schools for white studentsVirginia, more states
Malcom X vs. MLK Jr.
Rosa Parks refused to give up seat for white man on a bus (1955)Non-violent protest
SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)The authority they saw the federal government had was the FBI taking notes as local police beat innocent black citizens
1961, Freedom Riders
April 1963, MLK Jr.marchNew media turned Americans onto the side of MLK and blacksAlso seen throughout the world
President of University of Alabama (Wallace)Denied black students entrance to university
Alabama last state to end public education segregation
November 1963, JFK assassinatedHis comprehensive civil rights bill stuck in congressWould be enacted under Johnson
1964 Civil Rights ActIllegal to segregate in public placesStill a part about denying voting based on literacy
1965 Voting Rights Actends literacy testsBlack politicians being elected in high density Black areas
Marcus Garvey, wanted Black Nationalism in 1920s
Black leaders inspired by black national movements in Africa
Black separatists in order for blacks to thrive, we need to have our own religion and our own names that our white owners did not give us
1950s3/31/15 8:01 AM
1968 Presidential CampaignJohnson decides not to runBased on opposition to the warDemocrats wanted Robert Kennedy to runBobby Kennedy killed by Arab Nationalist in LA
Eugene McCarthyRuns on an anti-war platformThousands of students worked for McCarthyTet offensive occurs in 1968Democratic Convention in ChicagoDemocrats divided between Hawks and DovesHubert Humphrey vs. McCarthy
The Great Society6 thingsSome said that it destroys initiative of workersUnemployment 69-71 doubled
The Rust Belt
Nxion, lost to Ford
Oil-Embargo, 1973-74 during Nixons presidencyIsrael Arab warArab nations cut off oil to U.S.
Nixon froze wagesEconomic woes comes partially from escalating costs from Vietnam War
Look up tax rates in 20th century
Increased military spending had to be spent with increased tax dollarsOccurred during a time of inflation
Nixon won Civil and Voting Rights actsCivil Rights, 1866
Someone (Nixon or someone else) reduced enforcement of fair housing acts
Clean Air Act, Water Improvement Act, EPA made Nixon
Vietnam, Nixon was one president involvedWatergate Scandal Nixon
Nixon entered small arms deals with SovietsNixons plumbers (White House Plumbers?)
National debt increased under CarterCarter asked business to hold down price increasesAsked labor unions to not ask for increased wagesBy 1979, inflation was increasing by 10% a year
I met a girl a wonderful girl, I guess shes got a lot to recommend her for a girl, a fabulous creature without any doubt, hey what am I getting so
Reagan, like Humphrey, Reagan was a democratUNTILHe joined the SAGSAG became increasingly political during Red ScareHe became PresidentSAG said they were for capitalism and against communismNancy Davis, was accidentally put on blacklistReagan began working for GE, would go and speak on GEs behalf (promote the company image to the employees)Began to be seen as a corporate spokespersonBy the time he spoke for Goldwater, he was a Republican (Goldwater Wing of the Republican Party)Reagan came to hate what he formally endorsed
Cuts usually means growth rates (If a program gets a 10% increase in funding every year, it gets 5% the next year)
Reagan tried to gut the Environmental by appointing a schmutz as Secretary of the Interior
Asked Congress to drastically cut federal funding to the poor (social programs)
Said budget deficit had to decrease