America in 1914

What was the USA like a little over a 100 years ago?

Was it a functioning republic? How rich was it compared to European powers?

Militarily was it a power? I think it had a tiny army, but what about its navy?

America 1900-1920 General

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>What was the USA like a little over a 100 years ago?
People bitched about the same things that they do today

Beta males who always have to make out wamen as these pure hearted beings

The US already had the largest GDP in the world but was not a Superpower. The US flexed its muscles for the first time after the Civil War during the Spanish-American War, but was still somewhat hesitant to exert itself in foreign affairs.

As far as society, it was almost as diverse as it is today. A lot of "White" Americans hadn't been assimilated yet, including millions of Poles, Italians, Irish, Greeks, Ashkenazi Jews, Lithuanians, and other Central and Eastern European ethnic groups that are now lumped together as "White" Americans. Contrary to what /pol/tards and stormweenies believe, there is no historical precedent for a homogeneous White ethno state in the US.

>militarily
IIRC When the the US entered World War 1 they pretty much still had a frontier army. Something like 17th largest in the world. They also didn’t have any tanks or grenades.

that has to be from kaiserreich or some shit. Syndicalism has been an obscure meme ideology since it's inception.

>Contrary to what /pol/tards and stormweenies believe, there is no historical precedent for a homogeneous White ethno state in the US.

Minus the part where the Founding Fathers restricted naturalization and citizenship to whites exclusively.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalization_Act_of_1790

The US was literally founded as white ethnostate. It was meant for white land owning men of good character. Hell every country back then was kind of an ethno state anyways.

Everyone pre 20th century were racist in some way. Even the abolitionists. Retards today pretend some people had 21st century values back then or some shit.

Dont forget the 1965 Hart-Celler act

>Minus the part where the Founding Fathers restricted naturalization and citizenship to whites exclusively.
But crucially, they didn't differentiate between different kinds of whites, be it Anglo, French, German, or otherwise, nor did it make any provisions for difference of religion, which was a pretty major step forward

SYNDIES GET OUT

That's probably the only thing they believe that was de facto true

>Syndicalism has been an obscure meme ideology since it's inception.

A lot of the founding fathers didn't consider Germans white. Ben Franklin for example said that the Germans were swarthy cunts that would never assimilate.

>As far as society, it was almost as diverse as it is today.
So the US was 56% white in 1914?

The IWW was a major force in the American labor movement and left until the federal government sicked their death squads on it.

>Contrary to what /pol/tards and stormweenies believe, there is no historical precedent for a homogeneous White ethno state in the US.
Literally the first act of congress

>We want to smash capitalism and overthrow the federal government by force!
>WAHHHHH, why is the federal government trying to destroy us. It isn't fair.

> Militarily was it a power?
US had the weakest land army out of all great powers. The navy was US's prime military asset, with it being about the size of the German one in the start and larger in the end. But the land army had troubles with Pancho Villa, which led to some skepticism in the beginning. After all, US had not fought a land war in fifty years at that point.

eh...sort of. This was done to prevent native Americans and blacks from forming their own nations out of the new and very susceptible United States. It wasn't really about it being white, it was about preventing the country from being divided or cut up, so they preferred those from Northern Europe (where most Americans were from) as oppose to...well...anyone else.

its closer to 70%, contrary to the meme statistics that dub anyone with any non-white heritage as being not-white.

I bet you think Obama was black, too.

96 Senators voted for the bill to block South/East European and Asian immigration that publicly stated the following: " "maintain the racial preponderance of the basic strain on our people and thereby to stabilize the ethnic composition of the population".

IWW was not, and was never categorized, as a terrorist organization. Having a legal government threat like it one is against the very same government principles.

Since the late 19th century we've had a larger middle class than Western Europe (probably not anymore though) because of protectionism, subsidies, and other policies favorable to business owners. In 1914 we were a little less than half urbanized. We had a large military but had only recently begun to use it in conquests of the Philippines, Hawaii, and parts of Latin America. Our Navy was definitely large and capable of covering great distances.

In practice we weren't an Anglo-Saxon country. From the beginning we had French, German, and Scots-Irish immigrants, as well as many blacks, though most blacks weren't citizens until 1865.

*revisionism intensifies*

That act basically considered all europeans white so long as they weren't indentured labourers, whereas stormweenies only consider northern euros white.
Calling a melting pot of all european ethnic groups an ethnostate is pretty idiotic frankly, and the founding fathers clearly didn't discriminate between europeans at large.

>meme statistics that dub anyone with any non-white heritage as being not-white