Unit 2

-          Federman’s bakery; broken stairs, dirty windows/floor/bathroom, no electricity, no fresh H2O, rodent/insects, no heat/AC, 80hr/week

-          Cosmopolitan magazine: ppl worked in unaired room, sewed for long, small wage; kids faces were dull, backs bent, muscles strained frm carrying clothes; + immigration à crowded/ bad living conditions

-          Milwaukee brewery:

-          Nyc factory accidents: 50,000/year in NYC alone; hat/capmakers had respiratory disease, lithographic printers got arsenic poisoning, quarrymen were exposed to chemicals

-          Workers were forced to follow instructions (they were basically robots)

-          Saidie was healthy work who décor cloth w/ talcum/chalk (ez to rub off); employers changed it to white lead powder (not so ez to rub off) à couldn’t eat, hands/feet swelled, teeth/gums turned blue, couldn’t feel hand; disregarding her safety bc didn’t explicitly tell; ideas that workers were easily replaceable especially after mass immigration so lack of care

-          Triangle shirtwaist Company disobeyed lawsàdisregarded peoples safety

-          Jack London’s The Iron Heel: critiques capitalism/industrialization saying modern lives were worse than caveman; despite technological advances that had potential to improve lives.

-          1904: 27,000 ppl killed à 1914: 35,000 ppl killed; progressivism is defined as changes made to improve life, but the death rate increased in those ten years suggesting that the progressive reforms were not really progressive

-          Poverty led to diseases (give examples) which led to the upper class wanting to move away from the lower class which led to a greater divide and more poverty

CUBA

-          Captain AT. Mahon used propaganda for expansion

-          Farm products heavily depended on international markets because: no pay for workersà no money to buy food à surplus of food àfood will rot

o   This is why the U.S. wanted the Philippines

-          Cuba rebellion was like the American Revolution so businessmen used propaganda to promote this because they saw commercial opportunities there. Since Cuba was surrounded by water and imperial power was defined as having a strong Navy which allowed for trade, Cuba could be used as a stop for U.S. ships during trade.

-          The McKinley Admininistration told spain to settle war because it was bad for profits. He did not mention any reasoning about the goal of freedom or liberty for Cuba, going against key political values

-          The white man’s burden was a justification for Manifest Destiny, and that was disguised imperialism. The other countries could have taken care of themselves and shit, but they were treated like children who need to be taught

-           Teller Ammendment was originally approved by news articles, but after profits for Cuba were seen, they said it “needed to be interpreted differently”

-          A reason why the U.S. kept the Philipnes was that they thaught Filipinos could not rule themselves because they are “unfit” for rule, this exemplifies white supremacy and racist thinking

-          The press directed anger from the Maine explosion at Spain in support for the war, just like how the Declaration of Independence directed anger toward the King

-          Just like with the Indians, U.S. believed they had to educate and civilize Filipinos

-          Black people were against colonization and conquest of other civilizations because maybe empathy or something?

-          Henry Watterson said that America was the greatest imperial republic and was destined to control the world

o   That was white supremacy thinking

-          The yellow press was propaganda to promote nationalistic sentiments which helped the U.S. win against the Philippines (maybe something about white man’s burden)