HIST 2401 Lecture : US Hist Jan 30.docx
26 Feb 2014
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Wilson left a stamp on foreign policy that still exists today. Basis for intervention in iraq (bush) base on wilsonism. On jan 30, 1815, congress was auth to purchas jefferson"s personal library (23,950 to purchase. 6,487 volumes), thus creating the core of library of congress. Us values should be spread to rest of world. Normally reinvest, but in tight organized market, if improve capacities, flood market and drop profitability. World being divided up by europeans so need to play game. Social disunity/diversity at home fostered self-concious patriotism (pledge of allegiance in 1892) Charlotte perkins gilman: women and economics/the yellow wallpaper war is the fist socializer . Racial/evolutionary thought encouraged belief in us" need to become more fin" through imperial competition. Didn"t want to do what eng did to them. In interest of civ, seizing control over it was imp. Would be ironic if remembered for foreign policy because not really interested in it.
