HISTORY 152 2/3/15 8:01 AM

Mark Twain satirized Battle Hymn of Republic (Document) – Look for TEST

America’s Destiny (1900)

Albert Beveridge

DESTINY, we have no control over it, we must do it.

It’s our DUTY to annex

China is a valuable market that will sustain America

OPPORTUNITY (money)

MISSION of our race

American civilization needs to be universal. America is the greatest

civilization and needs to be spread

CHOSEN by god to save a civilization. Save Philippines.

Everything in this document leads back to commerce

We are going to war in the Philippines to secure our market

Eugen Sandow

Victorian-era body builder

T. Roosevelt worried that American men are getting weak

o Going to places such as Coney Island (cheap amusemants)

Roosevelt’s social values about strong men = Views on foreign policy

Progressive Era (Late 19th century – WWI)

Muckracking

o Cartoons that question society

o Puck Magazine

Read by new emerging middle class

Why Do We Want To Export To China?

Overproduction of goods in U.S.

o Need for new markets

Farmers

o Require 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

Imperialism

We 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 anywhere

Some 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

educated

There is no justice or liberty in American policy

Wants to ensure that safe means are used

Woodrow Wilson (pg. 95)

Pledges the U.S. will never take another foot of territory by

conquest

U.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 Woman’s role

o Wilson reluctant to jump onto the Woman’s revolution

WWI 3/17/2015 2:13:00 PM

QUIZ:

Great Migration

Government Propaganda

Robert LaFoulette

George Creel

League of Nations

WWI started with assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Black Hand

of Serbia

United States doesn’t 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 war

British are boarding American ships by setting up a blockade around

Germany and taking our goods

Germans 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 isolationism

Creates international organizations

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Paradoxes and Contradictions, Affluence and Anxiety

Contradiction is an element of paradox

Ford

Anti-Semantic

o Dealers required to have the Ford Newspapers out

Everyone should learn old traditional dance

Ford hates urban change, but he is responsible for the growing

changes – paradox

o Kid grew up and everyone he knew, none of their parents had

English as their first language

Harry Bennet

Ford Factory Policies

Not allowed to talk

Not allowed to go to bathroom

Social Gospel – Ask what Jesus would do?

Aimee Semple McPherson – POSSIBLE TEST DISCUSSION

Fuses fundamentalism with modern Hollywood sex appeal

Minister/Preacher

o Girls can participate in new culture, use dope and cold cream,

Converted at age 17 by a preacher whom she later married

Learned religious entertainment as well as traditional

o Sorta like a televangelist, early version, entertainer

Had a flair for dramatic, marketed her attributes (looks and drama)

into a religious business

Had college of her own, oversees missionaries

Christian publishing company

Radio transmitter was so strong that it interfered with other

stations, KFSG

Bob Shuler

Drowned at the beach?

o Amy reappeared, who said she was kidnapped by Mexicans

o Seen in an affair in Carmelo, CA.

1919? worst year ever, depends on who you are (strike wave)

Strikers called red, pained red, commies

Harding Administration

Veterans hospital scandals

(Bolshevik Revolution in Russia during WWI)

Diversity… U.S. most diverse, most of people German immigrants

why women shouldn’t vote, diluting vote, blacks, women

1920 reemergence on KKK, control gov. of Oregon and one other

KKK, restrict immigration to keep WASPs in power

Hollywood stars

Paradox & Contradiction

Black folks couldn’t go to see black musicians

Harding serving, buying alcohol in White House w/ taxpayer dollars

Prohibition and the Green Door in Chicago 1921

Theta Bera?

THE WANDERER

Paramount Pictures

Lots of anxiety about corporations

AFFLUENCE, ANXIETY, PARADOX & CONTRADICTIONS

Why are they advertising the company?

o They want you to buy the company, too

Set in ancient times (Babylon)

You in the 1920s are also a wanderer

o You’ve strayed away from old ideals, now you’re going to

speakeasies and etc.

Paramount saying, “look, we’re not bad. We can do more than the

little guy and our product is good”

Combining Fundamentalism and Hollywood

Evolution Debate

Williams J. Bryan, Democrat

John Scopes

o Broke law in Tennessee, taught evolution in High School

o Persecuted by Williams J. Bryan, assigned by state

o Defended by (NY?) Urban atheist lawyer, Clarence Darrell

Chain Stores

Big business controls local Chamber of Commerce and gov.

Little merchants being chased out by bigger stores

#anxiety

(B)Ponzi?, Charles - swindler

couldn’t prove they were guilty

traded currencies in different countries

Told people they could get rich with him

50% return in 90 days, give $100,000 and get back $150,000

o people would reinvest

Take money from other investors and give it to other investors, then

people will reinvest

PYRAMID SCHEME

o As long as the base gets bigger, you’re fine

1930s 3/17/15 8:01 AM

Roosevelt wins HUGE election (1936)

Hoover (1928)

FDR (1932, 1936, 1940, 1944)

Roosevelt didn’t 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 buyers

Brokers borrow money from banks

Margin call – broker can just sell stock and then tell buyers after

o Brokers 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, REFORM

RECOVERY doesn’t come from New Deal, but there is RELEF and

REFORM

Reconstruction Finance Corporation (1932)

Modeled on the War Finance Corporation of WWI

o Made Gov. loans to companies to keep them operating

(bankers), trying to keep banks solvent

Hoover created (1931)

(Something) public works program

o Spent money at Brooklyn Navy yard

Creating things for a naval area… Or something

Bonus Army (1932), FDR

After WWI, Congress passes a bonus bill for veterans

Vets begin to travel to Washington D.C.

General MacArthur ends up firing on the Bonus Army

o Vets not violent. In a silent protest that they wanted their

bonus NOW

Hoover was president when this happened

When Roosevelt first enters office, RECOVERY is the first focus, because

RELIEF and REFORM won’t 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, “We’ve inspected this bank, and it’s sound” USE THIS BANK,

kind of like FOOD INSPECTION ACT and European markets buying

American meat again

Also 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

production

I 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 business

An attempt to eliminate "cut-throat competition" by bringing

industry, labor and government together to create codes of "fair

practices" and set prices

Section 7a – Workers have the right to organize in a union

o Strike wave (1934)

Strikes to form a populous/group to

Wagner Act (1935)

Roosevelt signs it because it’s what the PEOPLE want