Causes on Inward Expansion
This is when one country dominates another to extract value.
What is Imperialism?
These are the two reasons for the decline of the buffalo.
What is hunting for sport and depriving Native Americans of a vital food source?
Control over this resource was a cause of the Spanish American War.
What is Sugar?
This is the year the Philippine American War started.
What is 1899?
This explains the evidence and connects it proving the claim.
What is reasoning?
This is when settlers attempt to replace an indigenous population.
What is settler colonialism?
This is the term for when a minority group gives up their culture and adopts the culture of a majority group to fit in (sometimes forcibly).
What is assimilation?
This is the belief that the strong will naturally dominate the weak (especially when applied to race).
What is Social Darwinism?
This organization was created to oppose the Philippine American War and others like it
What is the American Anti-Imperialist League?
This is the main argument and should appear first.
What is the claim?
This was the belief that God wanted American settlers to expand across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
These institutions separated Native American children from their families.
What are Native American Boarding Schools?
This notable American helped cause the Spanish American war and fought in Cuba.
Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
This is why the US was interested in the Philippines.
What are natural resources and a good position for naval bases that could provide access to Asia?
Information which supports the argument
What is evidence?
This resulted in the expulsion of Native Americans from California.
What is the Gold Rush?
This Native American Nation was targeted in the Sand Creek Massacre.
Who are the Cheyenne?
These were the first two territories added to the US.
What are Hawaii and Alaska?
What is 1946?
This man once said his goal was to “Kill the Indian and save the man.”
Who was Richard Henry Pratt?
This is the name of the US ship which was destroyed and used to create support for the Spanish American War
What is the USS Maine?
The estimated number of Filipino civilians who died in the war
What is 1 million?