Prompt Analysis

• Skill/Task: Comparison
• Main Idea: Expansionism and Imperialism
• Subtopics: Westward Expansion, Pacific Conflicts
• Time Period: 19th Century - Early 20th Century

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HIPP

• H: Open door and China Trade

• I: American Public

• P: Show new Chinese connection

• Pov: Most likely American

Outside Evidence

Social Darwinism

An ideology that applied Darwinism  to sociology and politics; superior groups surpass inferior ones in society. Major reasoning for US imperialism

Spanish American War

US intervention in Spanish-held Cuba. Cuba was a Spanish Colony, which was a non-freedom thing to have so close to the US

Late 19th - Early 20th Century

Philippine-American War

Annexation of the Philippines by the US after the Philippine Revolution 1896. Good example of the US expansionist foreign policies in this later period