Im challenging all history know it alls!!!?

Question

Assume you sitting on a bus, a woman looks at you and notices your reading a history book! she says " oh i love history, i just saw 2 movies about how rugged individuals changed this country in the last century makein the west safe for us. i just wish the government would go back to the good ole days when it let us run our own affairs when men like JOhn WAYne and andrew carnegie transformed this country..things worked well then!

Okay now.. respond to this woman and her assertions about the role of the government at that time, speciaficaly in post civil war era when the west and economy were transformed as well as her ideas about the results of the change in the economy of the west... OKAY NOW ANSWER>> points to you!

Answer 1

I'd tell that bus rider to look up Manifest Destiny ~ then she'd learn more about that time!

Try wikipedia

Answer 2

i'm a convert to Catholicism. The Church provides many opportunities, factors, etc. for people who prefer to be attentive to the historic information to income them. There seems to be a great empty area between some cradle Catholics and the actuality. What I even have chanced on is many Catholics who don't be attentive to their faith and consequently can't look after it, or are unaware that the religion is even being attacked. So, those Catholics do not arise against the tides oftentimes because of the fact they have not have been given any thought they could, or they don't be attentive to the respond, and finally end up getting swept into the tide. i do think of scholarly popes and bishops help deliver an emphasis to apologetics. whilst a Catholic, or non-Catholic, is going finding for an answer it helps to have a Church that has nicely thought out and comprehensible solutions. I spend a great number of time on line and examining books that designate the religion and look after against the main uncomplicated anti-Catholics claims. however the subject is that the misguided preparation is so entrenched in Protestant thought, and it extremely is regurgitated many times devoid of question, that many human beings by no skill think of for a 2d that it may be incorrect. even whilst confronted with absolute, unshakable reason on particular matters, the anti-Catholic will carry to their for sure unsuitable, flimsy stance.

Answer 3

John Wayne and Andrew Carnegie were in slightly different eras, although granted, both were around post Civil War.

Carnegie created a little mini empire, John Wayne...was in movies?

Sorry, your question is a little muddled.

Answer 4

John Wayne and Carnegie made the west safe for us? Ho ho ho ha ha ha hee hee. Unbelievable.

John Wayne was a movie star long after the west was tamed.

Carnegie was a trillionaire who built libraries for towns, also long after the west was tamed. Some of those libraries are still in use.

The best response to anyone this confused is to say, "Oh, this is my stop." and run for your life, then take the next bus that comes along.

Answer 5

It is apparent this woman slept through her history classes. Those periods of time were quite harsh on all peoples.
To start with the West. the spread of the "white eyes" spelled the end of many old races of Native Americans. On the plains, those who chose to farm faced harsh winters and boiling summers. They raped the land instead of working "with it" I could go on for hours on that.
Andrew Carnegie....... Self made millionaire. He made his money the really old fashoned way. Off the sweat and death of hundreds of workers in his factories. Not to mention the number of smaller businesses he wiped out to make his millions. families starved and froze in winter. Even children worked for almost nothing per month in his sweat shops.

Close enough?

Answer 6

i'd politely reply:

"ma'am... movies are a lot different from real life. we see good endings in movies but never do we those in life. we tend to think that a country should be run as such just like in a movie, but reality never lets us even close to it's premise. ma'am, the government has tried to do its best to keep up with society's trend, but the pitfalls committed are often committed by men themselves, by scenarios where conditions may swing either way. let's just say, it's a stalemate of what should've been done, but history can never tell if good intentions were reaped or not. only change remains as permanent. it's quite trivial to pursuit such theory, but hey, we strive to make history too... and one day the future generations would be just like both of us, sitting here and trying to eke a reason if what we have done made some significance to their welfare... ma'am.

Answer 7

I would laugh. John Wayne was a draft dodger, philanderer, and had to practice his walk and sneer before he went on stage.

Carnegie was a robber-baron who operated outside of the law to gain his riches.

The government did not interfere like it does today. It was still being tested and it was growing. I would have to tell her to get out of the movies and read some real history. Things did not work well, We had slavery, indentured servants, no universal voting. Women could not own property.

I doubt this answers your question. But it is my thoughts.

Answer 8

Tell her John Wayne was a draft dodger. Other Hollywood stars did their service-Clark Gable was a B-17 gunner and David Niven was a commando, the list goes on, but Wayne weaseled his way out of the war because he was a gutless blowhard.

Answer 9

i,m not to well educated, but history,as well as i can determine was always recorded by the winners of th war, so to say.some people are saying now that almost all history prior to ww2 has ben "changed". i don,t know if this is correct or not but i,m intrested

Answer 10

Tell her it was genocide, ethnic cleansing and land theft.