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Wayne E. Sirmon

HI 202 – United States History

History 202 — United States History From 1877

HI 202 – Work to be done….

Learning Lunch – 12 FEB, noon @ History MuseumI will leave from Weaver Hall at 11:30

Exam 1 – 13 FEB

Book Selection – 18 FEB (6 so far – NOT good)

Article TWO approval – 25 FEB

Mardi Gras – NO CLASS – 4 MARCH


Chapter 17 – Freedom’s Boundaries 1890-1900

Redrawing the Boundaries

“new” immigration –southern and eastern Europe

Italy, Russia, Austro-Hungarian




“new” immigration –southern and eastern Europe

Italy, Russia, Austro-Hungarian

“Beaten men from

Beaten races.”

- Francis Amasa Walker



Ellis Island

Miklos Desak, age 17

Borowa, Hungary

arrived Jan 06, 1910

SS Alice Trieste

http://www.ellisisland.org




Chinese Exclusion – 1882(before then only male laborers)

California

1871-1885 – no public education

1885-1947 – “separate but equal”




“The Women’s Era”(but no vote until 1920)

Control over wages

Separate contracts and wills

WCTU (1874)

Women’s Christian Temperance Union

Social reform issues:

labor, prostitution, public health,

sanitation, and international peace

Promoted ban on :

Alcohol, smoking, golf on Sunday



Becoming a World Power

Europe

Berlin Conference 1885

divides Africa

USA’s “empire” was growing

from “sea to shining sea”

(plus purchase of Alaska- 1867)




Unifying Patriotism

Pledge of Allegiance – 1892

(celebration of Columbus Day)

Flag Day – 1885

(celebration of 1st flag & Army birthday)

National News-

William Randolph Hearst – New York Journal

Joseph Pulitzer – New York World

Yellow JournalismTo the artist who cabled from Cuba,

“There is no trouble here. There will be no war.

I wish to return.”

Hearst replied “Please remain. You furnish the

pictures and I’ll furnish the war.”

Hearst’s Journal described the Spanish Commander as

“Butcher” Weyler, “the devastator of Haciendas, the destroyer

of families, and the outrager of women.”

Pulitzer’s World printed such reports as: “ The horrors of a

barbarous struggle for the extermination of the native

population are witnessed in all parts of the country. Blood on

the roadsides, blood on the fields, blood on the doorsteps,

blood, blood, blood! The old, the young, the weak, the crippled-

all are butchered without mercy. There is scarcely a hamlet that

has not witnessed the dreadful work. Is there no nation wise

enough, brave enough to aid this blood-smitten land?”




Feb. 15, 1898

USS Maine explosion in

Havana, Cuba

“Splendid Little War”

April 25 – August 12, 1898

332 combat deaths

2,957 deaths by disease




1st U. S. Volunteers Cavalry

“Rough Riders” or

“Wood’s Weary Walkers”

College Athletes, Cowboys

and Ranchers




Philippine Insurrection

1899-1902




Boxer RebellionThe Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists

1897-1901

(US involvement 1900-01)2 warships, 300 Marines, 3,100 Army

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