HIST 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Populism, Albert J. Beveridge, William Jennings Bryan
14 Mar 2016
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Progessive era: what they thought would be a modern future. We talked about alternaive visions of labour, poliics, government: populism, socialism (friday) Today: alternaive vision of american empire: spanish-american war, acquisiion of overseas territories, jusiicaions of expansion, debates about empire. American imperial acion, whether on the north american coninent or in more distant places, was jusiied by a cocktail mixed of various raionales, religious mission, theories of social eiciency, ideas of racial hierarchy and capacity t bender. Coninental expansion in us: naive americans, mexicans. Emergence of moral empire and commercial empire expansion: personal iniiaives. Asia: by 1915, enrolled 3m women, many women were involved in this movement, people went far for evangelism abroad. Also a hopeful ime for business and resources abroad: private movement of people abroad to expand the american empire, americans also have increasing responsibility to protect those abroad (eg. sending gun-ships, more demand for protecion.
