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What word means: the process by which a people give up their heritage, customs, and language to fit in with another group.
Assimilation
I led the Native American Lakota both spiritually and in battle.
Sitting Bull
Hawaii was beneficial because of its:
Sugar production
Plantations
Strategic location near Asia
When our country takes control of weaker lands, we gain new markets, resources, and power—but the people who live there lose their freedom.
List one positive of Imperialism and one negative of imperialism.
Positive: New markers, resources, and power.
Negatives: The people who live there lose their freedom.
Which word means:
the act of maintaining and keeping cultural traditions from the present and teaching them to the future generations.
Cultural preservation
I was the President that decided the annex Hawaii.
William McKinley
People made fun of America for buying Alaska..
But America found these useful resources in Alaska:
Fresh Water
Gold (a lot of it)
Oil
Timber
Fish
What does this quote by Albert J. Beveridge mean?
[J]ust beyond the Philippines are China’s illimitable markets... China is our natural customer.
He believes that being close to China is good because China has a lot of places to sell American made items.
Which word means...
when a stronger nation takes control of a weaker nation or territory.
Imperialism
I was the last Queen of Hawaii.
Queen Lili’uokalani
What term means:
is the idea that America had a God-given right, or destiny, to expand westward in the mid-to-late 19th century
Manifest Destiny
What do you think the speaker means when he says:
We hold that the policy known as imperialism is hostile to liberty and tends toward militarism, an evil from which it has been our glory to be free.
The speaker means that imperialism is agressive towards freedoms because imperlism strips freedom from others. America promotes freedom but took over Hawaii for example.
This Act:
Distributed land on Reservations to families and individuals.
Native Americans who accepted this land became full citizens of the United States
Congress also said that would fund school where Native American Children would learn “The white man’s way of life.
Dawes Act
I am the President of the United States during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
How did the United States gain the territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Phillipines?
They beat the Spanish in the Spanish American War
What did Chief Standing Bear mean when he said:
“This hand is not the color of yours, but if I pierce it, I shall feel pain... The blood that flows will be the same as yours.”
He meant that all people are the same despite differences in skin color. Standing Bear was saying that Native Americans and white Americans share the same human feelings—pain, blood, and life—so they deserve the same rights and respect.
I am the 49th and 50th state of the United States of America
Hawaii and Alaska
I was the first President of the United States.
George Washington
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Native American children attend school to learn "the white man's way of life".
They were forced to assimilate at school adapting many traditional American values while disregarding there cultral traditions.
What did Mark Twain mean by saying:
“I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.”
This quote uses symbolism (the eagle = the United States) to send the message that Twain is anti-Imperialism.