The word empire typically conjures images of ancient Rome, Genghis Khan, or the British Empire: powers that depended on military conquest, colonization, occupation, or direct resource exploitation.
I'm not surprised that Genghis Khan is there, knowing how big of an empire he had in the world.
In less than two hours, nearly three thousand Americans had been killed.
It must have been a tragic death.
As they left Selma, the marchers were attacked on the Edmund Pettus Bridge by white law enforcement with batons and tear gas. Television cameras captured the brutal beatings and tear gas attacks on peaceful marchers, and cheering white crowds waving Confederate battle flags.
That is just brutal and cruel. The marchers did nothing except to march for African American rights in a peaceful manner.
A few weeks earlier, a twenty-six-year-old black man named Jimmie Lee Jackson had been shot by state troopers during a voting-rights demonstration when he tried to protect his mother from police who were beating her.
I hate hearing these stories and how another human being can act out of his/her mortality.
Why was redlining a problem?
Redling was a problem because it denied access to most families to own a house. It also created racial segregation.
Aerial view of Levittown Pennsylvania in 1959.
This reminds me of the outview of an airplane window, when you're going up.
Why did Americans move to the suburbs in the 1950s?
Many Americans moved to the suburbs in the 1950s because after the war, a lot of young people wanted to find homes to start families of their own.
The pent-up demand of homebuyers who had been delayed by the Great Depression and young people eager to start families and get on with their lives after the war years further accelerated suburban growth.
I find this interesting, knowing people after the war wanting a family home and a lifestyle of their own. It makes me think of the outcome they had and how it can challenge me to buy a house in the future.
The economic growth that lifted millions of Americans into the middle class also reproduced existing inequalities.
This reminds me of the economy that is presented nowadays, and that many Americans now are either middle class or lower.
In 1913, Henry Ford hired 52,000 men to fill 14,000 positions in his factories.
This must have been a risk factor for Ford in his business.
The joy of buying infected a growing number of Americans
I find it funny how they said " The joy of buying...". This makes me think of myself.
Macy’s in Herald Square in New York City, 1907
It's interesting to me how Macy's was somehow involved in the early consumer revolution.
The decade so reshaped American life that it is remembered by many names: the New Era, the Jazz Age, the Age of the Flapper, the Prosperity Decade, and, most commonly, the Roaring Twenties.
I find it interesting how we have names for each generation.
Roosevelt’s single Morgan-backed target was the Northern Securities Company, a trust used by wealthy bankers to hold controlling shares in all the major railroad companies in the American Northwest. By controlling the majority of shares rather than the principal, Morgan and his collaborators tried to claim that it was not a monopoly and circumvent the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
This reminds me of the banks we have nowadays, that take control of their customers possession.
These “trusts” were monopolies or cartels that made agreements or consolidated (often illegally) to control a specific product or industry.
This sentence made me realize that it's really hard to trust people with your own personal life and the things you have, like money.
City populations not only increased rapidly, they changed even more quickly.
It's incredible how more people lived in cities.
We have seen previously that many of America’s new city-dwellers had migrated from the countryside in search of work in new industries
I feel like working in the country side was more beneficial because of the skills people had for farming and other stuff.
Hawaiian monarchy,
I had no idea Hawaiian had a monarchy.
take territory
As of now today and back then, I feel like Americans/US are ready to take on anything that's coming after them.
“Manifest Destiny”
It's sort of funny to me how Americans like this idea of ordaining the entire continent of North American.
But empires can take many forms and imperial processes occur in many contexts.
If a poor person wanted to have an empire of their own, how could they achieve that?