Adam Smith – Monopolies
Oregon – Montana Territory
and the Land Run of 1889
Adam Smith
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Adam Smith (baptised 16 June 1723 – 17 July 1790 [OS: 5 June 1723 – 17 July 1790]) was a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer of political economics. One of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Smith is the author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. The latter, usually abbreviated as The Wealth of Nations, is considered his magnum opus and the first modern work of economics. Smith is widely cited as the father of modern economics.
Smith studied moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow and Oxford University. After graduating, he delivered a successful series of public lectures at Edinburgh, leading him to collaborate with David Hume during the Scottish Enlightenment. Smith obtained a professorship at Glasgow teaching moral philosophy, and during this time he wrote and published The Theory of Moral Sentiments. In his later life, he took a tutoring position that allowed him to travel throughout Europe, where he met other intellectual leaders of his day. Smith returned home and spent the next ten years writing The Wealth of Nations, publishing it in 1776. He died in 1790.
Monopolies
The term Robber baron was popularized by U.S. political and economic commentator Matthew Josephson during The Great Depression in a 1934 book.[1] He attributed its first use to an 1880 anti-monopoly pamphlet in which Kansas farmers applied the term to railroad magnates. The informal term captains of industry may sometimes be used to avoid the negative connotations of “robber baron”.
Five Points (or The Five Points) was a notorious slum centered on the intersection of Mulberry, Anthony (now Worth St.), Cross (now Mosco), Orange (now Baxter), and Little Water Street (no longer exists) on Manhattan island, New York City, New York, in the United States. Today, the Five Points would be located about halfway between Chinatown and the Financial District. The name Five Points derived from the five corners at this intersection.
The neighborhood features in the book The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury, published in 1928. In the 1970s, the book inspired director Martin Scorsese to make a film set in The Points, which he accomplished with 2002’s Gangs of New York. In The Sting, mob boss Doyle Lonnergan (Robert Shaw) is known to come from Five Points; as part of the plan to gain Lonnergan’s confidence, Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford) claims to be from the same neighborhood.
Robber Barons
Bill the Butcher
Gangs of New York – Trailer
Northwest Territory
On July 13, 1787, the Confederation Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance. The act created the Northwest Territory. It also established a form of government and specified how the various parts of the Northwest Territory could become states. The Northwest Ordinance required the creation of at least three but not more than five states from the Northwest Territory. The first state to be formed from the Northwest Territory was Ohio, the seventeenth state of the United States of America. While the United States government had now established how the Northwest Territory would be governed, Native Americans living in the area refused to agree to American control of the region. From the Northwest Territory’s creation in 1787 until well after Ohio statehood in 1803, bloodshed between white settlers and the Indians continued in the American Northwest
Oregon Territory
The Territory of Oregon was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 14, 1848, until February 14, 1859, when the southwestern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Oregon. Originally claimed by several nations, the region was divided between the U.S. and Great Britain in 1846. When established, the territory encompassed an area that included the current states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, as well as parts of Wyoming and Montana.
The capital of the territory was first Oregon City, then Salem, followed briefly by Corvallis, and lastly as Salem, the seat of government for the State of Oregon.
Montana Territory
The Territory of Montana was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 28, 1864, until November 8, 1889, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Montana.
Land run
Land run (sometimes “land rush” ) usually refers to a historical event in which previously-restricted land of the United States was opened for homesteading on a first arrival basis. Some newly opened lands were sold first-come, sold by bid, or won by lottery, or by means other than a run. The settlers, no matter how they acquired occupancy, purchased the land from the United States Land Office. For former Indian lands, the Land Office distributed the funds to the various tribal entities according to previously negotiated terms. The Oklahoma Land Run of 1889 was the most prominent of the land runs, although there were several others enumerated below.
There were seven land runs in Oklahoma:
- Land Run of 1889 took place at high noon on April 22, 1889 and involved the settlement of the Unassigned Lands (most of modern day Canadian, Cleveland, Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma, and Payne counties).
- September 22, 1891: Land run to settle Iowa, Sac and Fox, Potawatomi, and Shawnee lands.
- September 23, 1891: Land run to settle Tecumseh, the pre-designated location of the county seat of County B, later renamed as Pottawatomie County.
- September 28, 1891: Land run to settle Chandler, the pre-designated location of the county seat of County A, later renamed as Lincoln County.
- April 19, 1892: Land run to settle the Cheyenne and Arapaho lands.
- September 16, 1893: Cherokee Strip Land Run. The Run of the Cherokee Strip opened nearly 7,000,000 acres (28,000 km²) to settlement on September 16, 1893. The land was purchased from the Cherokees for $7,000,000. It was largest land run in United States history.
- May 23, 1895: Land run to settle the Kickapoo lands.
- In honor of Oklahoma’s Centennial, an Oklahoma Centennial Land Run Monument is currently being built by Oklahoma artist Paul Moore in his Norman, Oklahoma studio. As elements of the 47 piece monument are finished, they are to be installed in lower Bricktown, Oklahoma City. When completed, the monument will be approximately 365 feet (111 m) long, making it one of the largest bronze sculptures in the world.
THE RUSH TO OKLAHOMA
You wanna put the Robber Baron’s back in the Drivers seat when you no longer have the West to settle and start over when the proverbial shit hits the fan under pure unbridled, unregulated capitalism that maybe was only ever really in effect from the 1890’s ( and forget about TR and Wilson to boot?) till the crash of 1929, maybe the public schools were really bad back when you were in school too, nah, you know better, turn off FOX, it’s that easy??
U know Glen, these crazy papists come over here and want a hand out and turn our cities into war zones with their vices and odd religions, and don’t even get me started about those crazy Mormons that believe in Vishnu or something weird like that? Somebody ought to look into their UnAmerican views in Congress?
In the late 19th century, Democrats would call the Republicans “Know Nothings” in order to secure the votes of Catholics. Since the early 20th century, the term has been a provocative slur, suggesting that the opponent is both nativist and ignorant.
Bob Jones Reposts Mormon, Catholic ‘Cult’ Reference
Doctor PaisleyPaisley’s use of the title’Dr’ derived initially from a 1954 qualification from the outlawed American Pioneer Theological Seminary in Rockville, Illinois. Later this was somewhat legitimised by an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree awarded by Bob Jones University
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