Phuong Vu

Question 1

Who is Phuong?

Answer 1

I am 25

I am an MA student in American Studies at NYU

I am from Vietnam

Question 2

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Question 3

Who was Marcus Garvey?

Answer 3

Marcus Garvey was the head of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. In response to increased post-war racial tension, the association proposed leaving America for Africa.

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Question 4

What is Manifest Destiny?

Answer 4

• American spirit of territorial expansion, 1815-1860 (expanded to the Pacific Ocean)
• Assumes America’s special experiment in freedom and democracy, enhances America’s divine mission (given by Providence) to spread democratic institutions.
• Coined by John O’Sullivan in 1845

Question 5

Who was John O’Sullivan?

Answer 5

• Coined the term Manifest Destiny in 1845
• An influential journalist and proponent of Jacksonian democracy
• Believed in the right to claim The Oregon Territory as the America’s great experiment of liberty and federated self-government

Question 6

For what did President Polk and other leaders use Manifest Destiny?

Answer 6

To justify the Annexation of Texas and the Mexican-American War

Question 7

What were some critiques against Manifest Destiny?

Answer 7

• Whigs: Manifest Destiny as an excuse for justifying the war with Mexico
• New England abolitionists: Manifest Destiny’s slogan “extending the area of freedom” = extending the institution of slavery

Question 8

Define Imperialism

Answer 8

• A policy of extending a nation’s power through military request, economic domination, or annexation
• Gained support in the US in the late 1890s.

Question 9

What led to * *the birth of Imperialism in the late 1890s?

Answer 9

America’s needs of new foreign markets and sources of raw materials to expand, to play a more aggressive role in world affairs.

Question 10

What is the difference between Manifest Destiny and Imperialism?

Answer 10

The idea of moral improvement
Imperialism brings civilization to less (technologically) advanced people. It embraces “the White Man’s Burden” spirit to justify a new national mission to *elevate backwards peoples*

Question 11

Why did anti-imperialists oppose Imperialism?

Answer 11

• Imperialism as a violation of America’s long-established commitment of self-determination and anti-colonialism
• Imperialism as a betrayal of America’s democratic institutions