HIS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: American Frontier, Economic Democracy, Populism
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Semester 2, lecture 3: wednesday january 25th, 2012. It was creating a vast and impersonal society in the us. The distribution of wealth was being skewed increasing concentration of more wealth in the hands of few people: urbanization. Huge agricultural lands are being bought up by businessmen for corporate farms and/or mines. Moral decline of the us cities are the sites of dancehalls, taverns, brothels, etc. Concern that america"s anglo-saxon ways of life will be undone by the new immigrants: the closing of the american frontier. Frederick jackson turner"s frontier thesis the frontier was the region that had created freedom in the us; with the closing of the frontier, an era of the us was passing. The people"s party (populism: populists believed that the current parties weren"t doing anything about the american economic situation, agrarian revolt. Farmers to revolt against conditions that keep them down in the us: populism"s platform.
