HIST 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Waterboarding, Ethnic Conflict, Upper House
10 Sep 2017
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Recap and agenda: progressive era , we talked about alternative visions of labor, politics, government, how labor relations should be done, who should be part of politics, cross racial? women? to what degree should the government be accountable. Socialism - moved to friday: today: alternative visions of american empire, progressive area is changing us and its relations in the world. Justifications of expansion: for acquisition of territories. Debates about empire: bendor quote, lots of different thing for different reasons became more a empire, ideas of manifest destiny and bring glory experienced differently to settlers. 19th century expansionism: continental exemption in us. Mexicans: emergences of moral empire and commercial empire, religion and money was two of the move reasons they expanded over seas. Private, then government commercial expansion: individual initiatives, a lot of businesses, set up corporate bases, us government is expected to protect these abroad citizens. Us producing tones of things, expanding foreign exposure abroad to gain consumers.
