. Other champions of muscular Christianity, such as the Young Men’s Christian Association, built gymnasiums, often attached to churches, where young men could strengthen their bodies as well as their spirits. It was YMCA leader who coined the term bodybuilding; others invented the sports of basketball and volleyball.
Okay this is shocking, I just thought someone just made volleyball but turns out, it was called “Mintonette,” but was used back in the days but now we call it volleyball.
The need to protect working-class women was starkly illustrated in 1911 when the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Manhattan caught fire. The doors of the factory had been chained shut to prevent women employees from taking unauthorized breaks. The managers who held the keys had saved themselves when the fire broke out, but they left over two hundred women locked in the factory. A rickety fire escape ladder on the side of the building collapsed immediately. Women lined the rooftop and crowded the windows of the ten-story building to avoid the flames and smoke. Many jumped, landing in what newspaper reports described as a “mangled, bloody pulp”. Life nets held by firemen tore at the impact of the falling bodies. Among the onlookers, “women were hysterical, scores fainted; men wept [and] hurled themselves against the police lines.” By the time the fire burned itself out, 71 workers were injured and 146 had died.
I learned about this in 7th grade and it was so tragic that so many died because the owners swapped the door. The managers saved themselves but left so many trapped in the building.
The WCTU called alcohol a “home wrecker.”
why did they call "alcohol" a home wrecker?
The Yards were already processing two million animals annually in 1870, and by 1890 they processed 9 million animals a year.
Its hard for me to imagine that 9 million domestic livestock are slaughter at the Great Union Stock Yards. Then again, look at us, we're processing animal way faster and in greater volume.
In 1900 Alabama had 121,159 literate black men of voting age. Only 3,742 were registered to vote. 130,000 black Louisiana voters had voted in the contentious election of 1896. Only 5,320 voted in 1900. While African Americans were clearly the target of these laws, some whites were disenfranchised as well
Just number wise is shocking. The Grandfather Clause was really made to deny people of color the right to vote....
Felton praised the killing of Sam Hose, saying he had deserved less sympathy than a rabid dog.
I want to say this is controversial in todays era because some say they deserve it and many people in our society think this is too much. It's such a grey topic for a lot of us but How does this make you feel?
sixteen all-white battleships
All 16 battleship were all white? And I'd like to know why "Great White Fleet"?
Asian trade remained comparatively small, and yet the idea that Asian markets were vital to American commerce affected American policy and, when those markets were threatened, prompted interventions.
I didn't know that at that specific time the America had been traveling to China and started trading. The fact that Asian markets in the east actually influence the America market shocked me!
that monopolies and trusts controlled too much of the economy, and that owners and investors grew rich while the workers who had produced their wealth suffered from low pay, long hours, and unsafe working conditions.
I find this interesting because in some cases, this is happening in some work places. Big company still control what we eat and what we pay for those items.
William Jennings Bryan was among the most influential losers in American political history.
Was William Jenning Bryan called the most "influential loser" because he could not become president?
He believed that reissuing silver dollars, by inflating American currency, could alleviate farmers’ debts.
How did this solution work? Did farmers alleviate their debt or did this way of relieving debt caused more debt?
The Farmer’s Alliance had failed to challenge the pervasive white supremacy of the American South in their call for a grand union of the producing classes. Their constitution had banned black membership, citing as an excuse that the Alliance was a social organization “where we meet with our wives and daughters.”
If only the farmer alliance had more political I believed there could've been a change. What shocked me in this text was the constitution banned black membership.
The alliance’s cooperatives spread across the South between 1886 and 1892 and reached more than a million members at their high point.
Wow, Just in 6 years the farmer's alliance reach over a million members.
Darwin’s theory had gained widespread traction among biologists, naturalists, and other scientists in the United States and had begun to challenge the social, political, and religious beliefs of many Americans.
Why did Darwin's theory gained traction among different profession?
Despite repeated failure, workers continued to strike industrial corporations. In 1894, 4,000 workers in Pullman rail car factories in Chicago struck when George Pullman cut wages by a quarter but kept rents and utilities in his company town constant
I think strikers and protestors willing to keep fighting was because of the unfairness between the workers and corporations. Workers were willing to go full length to ensure benefits that benefited them, and many may have felt taken advantage of, and wanted proper compensation.
We know one person can't make a difference, but with many people, a change can happen.
“The Chinese Must Go”. Many Chinese people ran laundries that competed with the company’s detergent and washing machines.
Wow, this is my first time seeing this image. This makes me truly wonder why whites thought of them self as better than other race and ethnicity!
Republicans used their control of government to enact high protective tariffs designed to shield American businesses from foreign competition. Southern planters had vehemently opposed tariffs before the war but could do nothing to prevent their increase.
This reminds me of quote from a history teacher, "Those in power, will want to keep their power/authority." The Republicans tried to stop competition by increasing tariff but I do not think it helped since Toyota later dominated the market.