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