Expansionism context Flashcards
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Definition
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Refers to states obtaining greater territory through empire building or colonialism
2
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Manifest Destiny
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American settlers were obtained to expland westward across North America
Rooted in:
- American expectionalism
- Romantic nationalism
- White nationalism
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- American expectionalism
- Romantic nationalism
- White nationalism
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- US is unique or exemplary compared to other nations
- State claims its political legitimacy as an organic consequences of the unity of those it governs
- Seeks to develop and maintain a white racial and national identity
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Continentialism
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19th century belief the US would eventually encompass all of North America
Transcontintial railroads
5
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Homestead act of 1862
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- Encouraged 600,00 familie to settle West by giving 160 acres of land, almost for free
- Resulted in the direct removal of indigenious communities
- Over 123 years, 200 million claims were made over 270 million acres were settled
- Led environmental degredation - failed to preserve the land
6
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Acquisition of Alaska
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US purchased it in 1807
- Klondike Gold Rush
- Brought 200,00 prospectors to Alaska
- Brought epidemics and land conflicts between settlers and indigenious Alaskans
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Spanish - American War
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- Acquistion of Guem, puerto Rico, Phillipines change things
- Acquired as colonies rather than prospect status
- Validated by Insular case
- Series of opinions by Supreme court of US about the states of US territories in the war
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Impact on Native Americans
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- The US continued the European practice of providing only limited land rights of indigenious peoples
- The national policy was for Native Americans to join the American societies and became “civilised”
- No wars or raids
- Shift form hunting to farming
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Replaced Manifest Destiny with interventionalism
- Interference of a state or groups of states into the domestic officers of another state for the purposes of coercing that state to do something
