Events such as the Triangle Shirtwaist fire convinced many Americans of the need for reform,
The fact that it took people burning in a fire for people to "convince" themselves that reform is needed.
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Women lined the rooftop and windows of the ten-story building and jumped, landing in a “mangled, bloody pulp.”
That sounds like a terrible sight to witness.
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industrialization created a new America.
So much of this "new America" still holds true to a lot of what makes up modern America, which is interesting because it shows that America hasn't changed at all with the way that it handles certain things like poverty, destruction of the environment, and even capital vs labor.
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When British author Rudyard Kipling visited Chicago in 1889, he described a city captivated by technology and blinded by greed. He described a rushed and crowded city, a “huge wilderness” with “scores of miles of these terrible streets” and their “hundred thousand of these terrible people.” “The show impressed me with a great horror,” he wrote. “There was no color in the street and no beauty—only a maze of wire ropes overhead and dirty stone flagging under foot.” He took a cab “and the cabman said that these things were the proof of progress.” Kipling visited a “gilded and mirrored” hotel “crammed with people talking about money, and spitting about everywhere.” He visited extravagant churches and spoke with their congregants. “I listened to people who said that the mere fact of spiking down strips of iron to wood, and getting a steam and iron thing to run along them was progress, that the telephone was progress, and the network of wires overhead was progress. They repeated their statements again and again.” Kipling said American newspapers report “that the snarling together of telegraph-wires, the heaving up of houses, and the making of money is progress.”1
this whole paragraph is so interesting to read, and how he describes the people living in this area
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Much about the American cowboys evolved from Mexican vaqueros: cowboys adopted Mexican practices, gear, and terms such as rodeo, bronco, and lasso.”
interesting...
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Cries for a swift American response filled the public sphere, and military expeditions were sent out to crush Native resistance.
woe is us the natives did something we have been doing for a long while to them, time to crush them!2!
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If Indigenous peoples could not be forced through kindness to change their ways
yes "kindness" by forcing them to assimilate and rip their culture away from them, taking their land away from them, even haunted them down when they first arrived-
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What some touted as a triumph—the westward expansion of American authority—was for others a tragedy
so much of history has this same sentiment, goes to show how little America has changed throughout the years
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Mound Bayou, Mississippi
a town where many of the property was own by African Americans
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Thirteenth Amendment
an amendment that reenforced the abolishment of slavery (expect for those that had committed a crime)
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Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation committed the United States to the abolition of slavery. However, the proclamation freed only enslaved people in areas of rebellion and left more than seven hundred thousand in bondage in Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri as well as in Union-occupied areas of Louisiana, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Oh! I wasn't aware of this- but I'm not really surprised by this either
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