- Oct 2024
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we must move as a trained and loyal army willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline,
I think Hoover is trying to motivate people to work together. With cooperation, the problems will be easier to face.
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Our international trade relations, though vastly important, are in point of time and necessity secondary to the establishment of a sound national economy
This is smart. I bet people were happy to hear that they were plans to help America's economy.
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This Nation asks for action, and action now
As a normal person, this must have been very exciting to hear at the time. I imagine it would invoke hope for a better future.
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These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
I think this means that hardship will help us come together and be better for the future.
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The average Mississippian can’t imagine himself chipping in to pay pensions for able-bodied Negroes to sit around in idleness
This is crazy. It is like white people had no idea about the the hardships black Americans faced. They really just made up and believed what they wanted.
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associationalism
It is crazy to me for him to believe that businesses would provide relief for those in need. When times are hard, people are probably going to look out for themselves.
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On October 29, Black Tuesday, the stock market began a fall that would continue for three years.
That is crazy! Falling for three years!
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Often, margin accounts allowed buyers to borrow 90% to 95% of the money they needed to complete a transaction.
Did nobody think about what could have happened if something were to happen? Borrowing that much money is crazy. While it seemed like a good idea, they would still have to pay it back later.
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Smith won handily in the nation’s largest cities
Was this because there was a higher worker population? He favored the protection of worker's.
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Harding took vacation in the summer of 1923, announcing he intended to think deeply about how to deal with his “God-damned friends”.
This is so funny. He knew his friends sucked. Why did he think they would do any differently and not embarrass him?
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tores and homes were looted and set on fire. When Tulsa firefighters arrived, they were turned away by white vigilantes
This awful. The people in Tulsa were truly thriving and in literally a day, everything was gone.
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He was expected to be a strong candidate given his continued popularity and a platform including old-age pensions for workers, government insurance for sickness and unemployment, public housing programs for low-income families, reduction of work hours, aid to farmers, and greater regulation of large corporations.
This is interesting to me. What if he had not died and became president?
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- Sep 2024
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The law was expanded with the Sedition Act of 1918, which prohibited any forms of speech that could be considered “disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States…or the flag of the United States, or the uniform of the Army or Navy.
Doesn't this go against freedom of speech, which is literally in the constitution?
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But in the six weeks following the declaration of war, only 73,000 men volunteered for service
Imagine if they did not do the draft after this and only had 73,000 people. I wonder if that would have changed the outcome of the war.
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the federal government faced strong public opinion against entering what Americans saw as a fight they had no stake in
It is interesting how no one really wanted to enter the war except the people who saw they could profit from it. But the people who were profiting from it were not the ones fighting it.
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Morgan led a consortium of over 2,000 banks and managed loans to the allies that exceeded $500 million (nearly $13 billion in today’s dollars).
This is insane. Where did the money come from. Also, knowing that Germany had to pay that back for reparations for the war is crazy.
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Unfortunately, few of these organizations were biracial
This is so irritating to me. It makes zero sense to exclude entire groups of women because of their race. If they had included more races, wouldn't the fight for their cause be stronger?
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As young women pushed back against traditional expectations about premarital sexual expression, some social welfare experts and moral reformers labeled them feeble-minded, preferring to believe that such unfeminine behavior must be a symptom of clinical insanity rather than free-willed expression.
This is funny to me because they could not believe that women would want to willingly rebel against a male-dominated society. It's also crazy to me because it shows how they thought there was nothing wrong with the social expectations of women.
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The story was a joke, of course, but Thomas Edison nevertheless received inquiries from readers wondering when the new food machine would be ready for the market and where they could get one
This is crazy to me because you could say anything and people would've believed it if it came from influential person. They might've believed it because of recent technological advancement seemed impossible like it says, but the meat machine seems super impossible. But they also had no reason to ask why they would not tell them the truth.
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The complex contained 2,500 livestock pens that could house 75,000 hogs, 21,000 cattle, and 22,000 sheep at the same time. The Chicago meat processing industry, a cartel of five firms led by Cudahy, Swift, and Armour, produced four fifths of the meat bought by American consumers.
While this is great for supplying the U.S with food, this is also a huge source of pollution. Methane gas from all of the animals would go straight into the atmosphere.
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Over time, though, the greater persistence of more prosperous residents often allowed them to gain greater political power than poorer people who in many cases did not stick around long enough to organize; or often even to vote.
I think it's interesting how things like this can carry into the future. Generational wealth and influence can hold so much weight in the present. Would we have become more open to others as a society if working class people in cities gained more political power in the past? What would have happened if the richer residents of the cities did not stay in the city?
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According to the racial theory of the day, humans progressed through stages of civilization in an orderly, linear fashion.
Doesn't this go back to evolution? We know that there is no highest level of civilization, white people used social darwinism as an explanation for their feelings of moral superiority and excuse their racist values. But it doesn’t totally make sense. According to their theory, wouldn't other races eventually "catch up" to white people? If it goes in a linear fashion, white people would stay the same while other races would continue to progress and then they would be equal. How would they justify their racism then?
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Presidents Taft and Wilson continued the practice during their own administrations. Lenders took advantage of the region’s need for cash and exacted punishing interest rates on massive loans, which were then sold off in pieces on the secondary bond market
This is awful. They took advantage of an entire region for their own benefit. It is exploitation and immoral.
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sixteen all-white battleships
The all-white battleships is for sure intentional.
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Roosevelt was rewarded by being selected to replace McKinley’s first vice president, Garret Hobart, who had died in office, in the 1900 election. When McKinley was assassinated and Roosevelt became president, he acted immediately to expand naval power.
This is sort of funny (not the people dying part). Two people had to die for him to become president. It was by default! While he still was able to become the replacement for Hobart, he still was not supposed to become president because McKinley was not expected to be assassinated.
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Seeing the Philippines as a gateway to Asia, President William McKinley issued a “Benevolent Assimilation Proclamation” in January 1899
This must have been so annoying to Aguinaldo. Imagine being told that you were getting help to become independent, then controlled again by the people who were going to help you because they said you were not ready yet. It would be extremely degrading.
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The platform proposed nationalizing the country’s railroad and telegraph systems to ensure that essential services would be run in the interests of the people rather than for the profits of wealthy investors.
This is interesting because the other candidates did not do this. It seems like common sense for the people to want to use railroads and telegraph systems for their own convenience. It should not just be for investors to get more money.
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At its peak, the Farmers’ Alliance claimed 1,500,000 members meeting in 40,000 local sub-alliances.
This is a lot of people! It is interesting to read that so many people came together to help each other create better conditions for their job.
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But new connections and new conveniences came at a price. Farmers found their financial security depended on a national economic system subject to rapid price swings, rampant speculation, and limited regulation. Many came to believe the system enriched “parasitic” bankers and industrial monopolists at the expense of the many laboring farmers who fed the nation by producing its many crops and farm goods.
It's sad that while life became somewhat easier with more conveniences, farmers were still at the mercy of the wealthy and systems put in place by them. Even though they would not have food if farmers did not provide it.
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Many farmers fell ever further into debt, lost their land, and were forced to enter the industrial workforce or, especially in the South, become landless farmworkers.
It is awful that so many people lost their jobs and homes because of commercialization. It seems that bankers and equipment manufacturers took advantage of the farmers' want to maintain their land and jobs.
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- Aug 2024
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In 1885 after McCormick’s death, with his son running the company, the factory produced twice as many.
Wouldn't the quality be worse? If you replace the people who have skills for certain things with people who are not trained in the same area, the product would not be as good. They would sacrifice quality for quantity.
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Colleges, hospitals, and even bridges were built by chartered corporations because they provided a public benefit and because they were natural monopolies: there only needed to be one in any particular place
Does this mean that they would profit off of other people's needs? Would everyone be able to use these institutions or would only people who have money be able to use them?
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The up-front costs of building factories for mass production and then marketing and distributing a product to a national or global market were prohibitive for all but the very wealthiest individuals.
This would just keep the wealthy rich. They could continue to maintain their influence and power over others.
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Workers struck from Baltimore to St. Louis, shutting down railroad traffic—the nation’s economic lifeblood—across the country.
I find this interesting because of how bad this would have been for the company. It makes you realize how much of the company's money is made by their workers. Which sounds obvious, but they were treated awfully and were still expected to continue to help the company. It does not make sense to hurt your workers when you would not make any money without them.
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The wealthy president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Thomas Andrew Scott, who had been Assistant Secretary of War for Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, is often named as one of the first Robber Barons of the Gilded Age. Scott suggested that if striking workers complained they were hungry, they should be given “a rifle diet for a few days and see how they like that kind of bread.”
This is interesting because is shows how he did not care about his workers. Instead, his main goal was to make money even at the cost of human lives.
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