"The 'White' race was obeying the 'divine command, to subdue and replenish the earth,' as it searched for new and distant lands."
They were proud of their progress.
They believed they were bringing civilization to races and people who would otherwise be primitive heathens. If they couldn't convert them, they killed them. They were destroying "savagery." Houses replaced wigwams. White women replaced Indian squaws. And all of it was done in the name of God. They were really doing it for money, but rationalized the evil of it by calling it progress. This attitude, that whites were a civilizing influence, extended toward the yellow races also.
A chose this section because it is another example of how capitalism lacks a social conscience. The Chinese were brought here for cheap labor and were exploited for profits.
To paraphrase: Annexing California led to bringing Asian workers here to build a transcontinental railroad. The railroad would make it possible for America to export goods to Asia. The Chinese workers were also used to clear the land and cultivate farms in California. They were found to be very good workers and talented at growing things. Civilizing other races really meant exploiting them for cheap labor and bigger profits.
In a plan sent to Congress in 1848, shortly after the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, policy-maker Aaron W. Palmer predicted that San Francisco, connected by railroad to the Atlantic states, would become 'the great Emporium of our commerce on the Pacific'" (p. 192).
At first the Chinese were welcome in California, but within a couple years a "California for Americans" slogan signaled a changing climate and discrimination against them began (p. 195).
4. In 1890 a cult of "ghost dancers"...
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