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American Experience: Self-Making & Self Help, “One of the strongest…

- - - - Andrew Carnegie: Gospel of Wealth
        
        Even the poorest can be made to see this, and to agree that great sums gathered by some of their fellow-citizens and spent for public purposes, from which the masses reap the principal benefit, are more valuable to them than if scattered among them through the course of many years in trifling amounts
- - - - blood-red thing that writhes from out The scenic solitude!
        It writhes!—it writhes!—with mortal pangs The mimes become its food, And seraphs sob at vermin fangs In human gore imbued.
- - - - In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore; Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he; But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door—Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door
- - - - 1730s-1740s
        
        limited number of Official Ministers
        
        1/5th population going to church
        
        Increasing Population
        
        Increased Wealth
    - - 1692
        
        The Salem witch scare had complex social roots beyond the community’s religious convictions. It drew upon preexisting rivalries and disputes within the rapidly growing Massachusetts
    - - Frederick Douglass
        
        "Master, however, was not a humane slaveholder. It required extraordinary barbarity on the part of an overseer to affect him. He was a cruel man, hardened by a long life of slaveholding. He would at times seem to take great pleasure in whipping a slave" (Douglass 6).
        
        “I was somewhat unmanageable when I first went there, but a few months of this discipline tamed me. Mr. Covey succeeded in breaking me. I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died” (Douglass 67).
    - - Factories
      - Unions
      - Railroads, electricity, Steel
  - - - “It was characteristic of the Jazz Age that it had no interest in politics at all. It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire” (Fitzgerald)
    - - The New Suburbia:
        
        “they are liking so many other ways. Besides being the same age group (25-35) almost everyone has one of the 9000 homes has at least one child (and only 100 of the 8000 children are old enough for high school) nobody keeps up with the Joneses because they almost all have the same income”
    - - “Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all of their scintillating beauty” (MLK)
      - they didn’t have jet planes; they didn’t have all of the heavy armaments that the white man has. But they had unity (Malcom X)
      - We have waited for more than 340 years for our constitutional and God-given rights. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political
        independence, but we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward the gaining of a cup of coffee at a lunch counter (MLK)