HIST 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Frederic Remington, Social Darwinism, Teller Amendment
15 Aug 2017
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1890 conditions change: two ways of saying how we changed. If (cid:455)ou did(cid:374)(cid:859)t ha(cid:448)e this a(cid:272)(cid:272)ess, (cid:455)ou (cid:449)ould need to expand/colonize to get them: people thought it was really silly to do that. It (cid:449)as a(cid:374) i(cid:272)(cid:455) (cid:449)astela(cid:374)d a(cid:374)d people (cid:272)ould(cid:374)(cid:859)t li(cid:448)e there. In the same year, we bought midway island in the pacific ocean. Social darwinism: defined as the belief in anglo-saxon superiority, believed they were the superior race. America: this worried a lot of americans, they were afraid we would become like europe and be living too close together, they were afraid of all the sanitation, hygiene, etc. It is still in the oval office today. Maine before declaring war: he declared war because that was what the people wanted and he wanted to be re- elected. * * war * : there were a couple things that the war did.
