White mans Burden

Question 1

No theme dominates the history of American colonialism in the Philippines at least in its early stages more than

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Race

Question 2

U.s Pacific fleet under him steamed into Manila Bay on May 1, 1898

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Commodore George E. Dewey

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Led the Philippine revolutionaries

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Emilio Aguinaldo

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Radical republican lawmakers attempted to equalise race relations

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Postwar reconstruction period

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Guaranteed national citizenship and equal protection of law to all American

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14th amendment

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Most blacks lived

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American south

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Native inhabitants of North America

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American Indians

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Viewed the Indians as uncivilised savages who impeded the progress and enlightenment of Euro-American civilization

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Whites

Question 9

Whites believed it their ___ to spread their civilization across North America

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Manifest destiny

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Reformers institute a program to civilize the savages largely through educational efforts like

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Richard Pratt’s Carlisle School in Pennsylvania

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Led white reformers to lower their expectations of Indian assimilation

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Racism

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Foreign potentate

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The pope

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As more immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe arrive ,many old stock Americans began to fear the __ of the Anglo Saxon

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Mongrelization

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First arrived in California in the 1840s and 1850s as merchants, gold prospectors and railroad workers

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Chinese immigrants

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Chinese soon experience the race prejudice of the White population especially after the completion of transcontinental railroad in

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1869

Question 16

In 1882, the U.S. Congress passed the first of the ___ effectively barring immigration from the Middle kingdom

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Chinese Exclusion Acts

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Japanese immigrants arrived in 1900 , resulting in __between American and Japanese government

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Gentlemans Agreement

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Were deviant and inferior evolutionary branches of the human species

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Africans and Native Americans

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Was often used to prove White supremacy

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Scientific method

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Measurement of skull size

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Craniometry

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Grounded in scientific fact the aura of white supremacy seemed unassailable to many

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Stephen J. Gould

Question 22

America’s most renowned expert on the Philippines was University of Michigan zoologist ___ who had performed field research in the archipelago during 1880s

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Dean C. Worcester

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Claimed to have discovered 80 ethnic groups which he categorised into three

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Dean C. Worcester

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Testified before the Congress that the Filipinos only concern were to go to cock fights, gamble and whet their bolo

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Army General Robert Hughes

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Routinely referred Filipinos as niggers

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American soldiers

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Native female companion

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Squaw

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Claimed that Filipinos were utterly without conscience and as full of treachery as our Arizona Apache

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Army General Charles King

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Explained that Filipino elites were glib and able to run off phrases but had difficulty understanding concepts

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William Howard Taft

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Dismissed the entire archipelagos population as jumble of savage tribes

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Theodore Roosevelt

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World fair

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1904 Louisana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis

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Pointed out how everybody knows the trouble mulattoes have caused in the South

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Mrs. Jefferson Davis

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Some imperialists

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Theodore Roosevelt and Senator Albert Beveridge

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Argued against acquisition

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Anti imperialists

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He discerned the character of imperialists and anti imperialists of racism as somewhat different

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Stuart C. Miller

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Were more strongly paternalistic in racism

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Imperialists

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Were particularly excited about Christianizing the Filipinos

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Protestant missionaries

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Were a varied group often United only in their opposition to annexation

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Anti imperialists

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Most prominent among the anti imperialists were Southern __ who opposed annexation largely due to racist fears

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Democrats

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We understand what it is to have two races side by side that cannot mix or mingle

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South Carolina Senator Pitchfork Ben Tillman

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Opposed annexation because 3/4 of the population were Negroes

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Mrs. Jefferson Davis

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Traced their intellectual roots to abolitionism

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Liberal Republicans Senator Carl Schurz of Missouri and George Frisbee Hoar of Massachusetts

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Observed that the chief aversion to accessions of territory springs from the fear that they must be admitted to the union as states

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Whitelaw Reid

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Asserts that no matter whether they are fit to govern themselves they are not fit to govern us

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Missouri Representative Champ Clark

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Argued that the Constitution follows the flag but doesn't quite catch up with it

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Secretary of War Elihu Root

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We have full power and are absolutely free to do with the islands as we please

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Senator Henry Cabot Lodge

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Aguinaldo headed a popularly elected government controlling large areas of the Philippine archipelago

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January 1899

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Argued that unquestionably chaos would follow self government since even the educated Filipinos are below par

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William Howard Taft

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The US and Spain signed the peace treaty

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December 1898

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Senate ratification of the treaty where imperialists won the debate over annexation

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February 1899

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A skirmish erupted outside Manila in which the U.S. army Private William Grayson boasted of shooting his first nigger

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February 4

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Commander of American troops in the archipelago believed that the war was all but son and refused War Department offees of more troops

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General Elwell Otis

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Turned down offers from several states of National Guard Units

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President McKinley

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Participated in the battle of Wounded knee in 1890 described Filipinos as worse than fighting Indians

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Army Colonel Jacob Smith

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Combat with the Savage Filipinos as

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Injun warfare

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Implicit but strong element of injun warfare

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Race prejudice

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A strong connection exists between hatred and war atrocities

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John Dower

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Contributes immeasurably to the psychological distancing that facilitates killing

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Dehumanisation of the other

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Patrols into the Philippine countryside

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Gugu hunts

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Otis successor explained that inferior races were more likely to succumb to battlefield wounds than Anglo- Saxons

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General Arthur MacArthur

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By 1901, the ___ was effectively broken

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Philippine Insurrection

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Captured Aguinaldo

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General Frederick Funston

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Residents were herded into concentration camps, becoming a killing zone for US troops

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Batangas provnce

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Vowed to make the island of Samar sight of recent massacre of US soldiers "howl"

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Col. Jacob Smith

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Argued that it might be necessary to kill half of the Philippine people in order to bring perfect justice to the other half

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General William Shafter

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Declared Philippine Insurrection war over

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July 1902

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First educational coordinator for the new colony

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Fred Atkinson

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Urged American to take up the white man's burden

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Briton Rudyard Kipling

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Author of assuming the white man's burden

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Mark D. Van Ells