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Why is it important to say “settler colonialism” instead of “westward expansion”?

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Naoko Shibusawa

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February 19, 2021

Related Units

Imperial America: U.S. Global Expansion, 1890-1915

Westward Expansion:
A New History

Videos from Naoko Shibusawa

What is imperialism?
  • February 19, 2021
What are administrative and settler colonies?
  • February 19, 2021
Why is it important to say “settler colonialism” instead of “westward expansion”?
  • February 19, 2021
How did Americans justify their settler colonialism?
  • February 19, 2021
How were other imperial powers competing for territory around the turn of the twentieth century?
  • February 19, 2021
What was Jackson Turner’s “Frontier Thesis”?
  • February 19, 2021
Analysis of “American Progress” by John Gast (1872)
  • February 19, 2021
How did U.S. political cartoons attempt to justify U.S. imperialism?
  • February 19, 2021
How were the U.S. wars to colonize Native American territory similar to the Philippine-American War?
  • February 19, 2021
Why is it important for Americans to study the Philippine-American War?
  • February 19, 2021
How long were the Philippines a colony of the United States?
  • February 19, 2021
What were the Open Door Notes?
  • February 19, 2021
How have Native Hawaiians continued to resist U.S. settler colonialism of their lands?
  • February 19, 2021
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