HIST 151 1st Edition Lecture 14 Outline of Last Lecture I Chapter 20 Dissent Depression and War 1890 1900 Outline of Current Lecture II Chapter 20 Dissent Depression and War 1890 1900 Milltowns Pullman Palace Car Co Pullman Illinois Manifest Destiny Alfred T Mahan s famous influential book Secretary of State John Hay Open Door Notes Spheres of Influence and the Boxer Rebellion Current Lecture Milltowns Pullman Palace Car Co Pullman Illinois Investors want to buy land in which to invest in Milltowns o Often named after the founders who invested in the land o Deliberately made to be off of the beaten path so as the settlers are not able to leave once they arrive o Milltowns often used their own form of currency Scripts so settlers aren t able to save up and leave the money won t be usable outside of the Milltown o No opportunity in Milltowns Pullman Illinois home to the Pullman Car Company near lake Calumet 9 miles off of Chicago o Built train cars for the super rich sleep cars o Workers lived on the company property o Will be the site of a deadly strike in the distant future Manifest Destiny An American ideal God wanted the whites to move Westward o Belief that Americans Anglo Saxon monotheistic are given a swath of land and are solely the ones able to occupy it o Allowed to move West and North Canadian Border Rio Grande determined fate by God o Democracy education church and work were brought along with the migrating white Americans By 1890 Manifest Destiny was a huge success These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Alfred T Mahan s famous influential book Alfred T Mahan wrote a book and published it in 1890 o There is no certain name it is often still changed to this day o Novel is about significance in naval power in U S History Each and every powerful and successful civilization dominated the sea To be a sovereign nation one needs a Navy and needs to dominate the ocean Military leaders presidents titans of industry have read the book United States ramps up a militaristic Navy Secretary of State John Hay Open Door Notes John Hay appointed by President William McKinley 1896 o Writer brilliant well schooled acquainted with foreign policy John Hay wrote Open Door Notes reflected the President s agenda o Suggested to prop the door open to let every nation into China Notes reflect foreign policy U S gets in on a piece of China Spheres of Influence and the Boxer Rebellion China metaphorically carved into spheres of influence certain countries had a piece of the sphere Certain members of China had a distaste towards foreigners developed the name Boxers Boxer Rebellion turns deadly each country that had a piece of the sphere banned together and sent a collective amount of 50 000 troops into China to eliminate the Boxers o America added a dog to the fight and sent over 5 000 additional troops to accommodate the 50 000 Boxers were defeated