Daniel Immerwahr, The Greater United States: Territory and Empire in U.S. History , Diplomatic History, Volume 40, Issue 3, June 2016, Pages 373391, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhw009, March 1954 is a month diplomatic historians know well. 12. PDF TOPIC American Imperialism DBQ QUESTION BACKGROUND Acquisitions Incorporated | Forgotten Realms Wiki | Fandom Bicknell, Edward. Leadership Task 2 The total area of U.S. overseas bases is reported in Department of Defense, Base Structure ReportFiscal Year 2015 Baseline: A Summary of the Real Property Inventory, Washington, DC, 2015, 84. Frank Ninkovich offers an overview of the historiography in The United States and Imperialism, in Robert D. Schulzinger, ed., A Companion to American Foreign Relations (Malden, MA, 2003), 79102. Relief shown by hachures. 42. <> For a sustained engagement by a Wisconsin-School historian with formal imperialism, see Walter LaFeber, The Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective , rev. Besides the histories of military bases listed above, exemplary studies of small spaces include Ron Robins examination of embassies and cemeteries in Enclaves of America: The Rhetoric of American Political Architecture Abroad, 19001965 (Princeton, NJ, 1992); John Lindsay-Polands portrait of San Jose Island in Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama (Durham, NC, 2003), ch. independent as Kiribati Histories of the United States are, by and large, histories of the logo map. A different but compatible accounting is offered in David Vine, Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World (New York, 2015). Thus, in these cases of partial annexation, I use 1803 as the start date for LA, MN, ND, SD, MT, OK, and WY; 1845 as the start date for CO and NM; and 1848 as the start date for AZ. Zone in Germany (17,174): figures from October 1946 census reported in The Demography of War: Germany, Population Index 14 (1948): 299; Continental United States (132,481): Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970 (Washington, DC: 1975), part I, 8. The first arc in the history of the Greater United States, concerning western territories, is obviously central to any telling of U.S. history, and has been since at least Frederick Jackson Turners frontier thesis. 23 In the past decade, Diplomatic History has dramatically increased its publishing on the Philippines, with an article every two or three years. John W. Griggs in The Insular Cases, Comprising the Records, Briefs, and Arguments of Counsel in the Insular Cases of the October Term, 1900, in the Supreme Court of the United States (Washington, DC, 1901), 363. 32. See also Stacie L. Pettyjohn, U. S. Global Defense Posture, 17832001 (Santa Monica, CA, 2012). Like United Kingdom, it applies merely to the central and dominating body, the seat of empire; and Greater America comprises almost as wide a range of governments as Greater Britain itself. 17. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/04014391/. 21. 19. <> DOCUMENT 2 United States Acquisitions and Annexations, 1857-1904DOCUMENT 2 United States Acquisitions and Annexations, 18571904 0 1000 ASIA 1847 1898 1898 '899 thitedStatespssessims (withdate acqus&n) ofinnuee theUnitedStates STATESMidwayis.1867 WakeL 1899 189 1858 1898 How4andt. United States territorial acquisitions - Ballotpedia ch. 8. As a result of the United States' multiple acquisitionsincluding Hawaii and the Philippinesduring the late 1800s, the period is referred to by some as the nation's age of U.S. _____. Takeover, the purchase of one company by another; Mergers and acquisitions, transactions in which the ownership of companies or their operating units are transferred or consolidated with other entities; Procurement, finding, agreeing terms and acquiring goods, services or works from an external source; Library acquisitions, department of a library responsible for . Profile of the Erie Canal, notes, and illustration in lower margin. United States--History, - United States Acquisitions and Annexations 1857-1904 Other Gains in the Pacific The United States government intervened in other parts of the Pacific at the same time that events played out in the Spanish-American War. The Jackson administration proposed carving out a large portion of Indian Territory for eventual admission to the union as an all-Indian state. Palin herself twice attended Alaska Independence Party conventions. following military victory; $15 million plus 3.25 million in assumed claims, Unincorporated territory claimed under Guano Act of 1856, Unincorporated territory annexed under Guano Act of 1856; 2. 45. It is an extraordinary fact about the United States that its western territories became states, parts of the union on an equal footing with older states. (Oxford, 1989). There is a K-8 school named after him in Harlem: P.S. 27. analyze this Document (notes). United States Acquisitions and U.S. Territorial Acquisitions In that decade, his followers bombed numerous federal buildings (including the governors mansion) and assassinated Puerto Ricos chief of police. By then, it had reclaimed its Pacific colonies from Japan. 15. Most U.S. historians, especially when working on the zoomed-out, textbook level, implicitly take as their unit of analysis only a part of the United States, the contiguous part. 29. After thousands of whites poured into the territory, many in breach of federal law, it was eventually admitted as a white-majority state in 1907. Dean Kohlhoff, When the Wind Was a River: Aleut Evacuation in World War II (Seattle, WA, 1995) and Jennifer Sepez, Christina Package, Patricia E. Malcolm, and Amanda Poole, Unalaska, Alaska: Memory and Denial in the Globalization of the Aleutian Landscape, Polar Geography 30 (2007): 193209. The map shows the thirteen original states and the territories acquired in 1783, the Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803, Florida purchased from Spain in 1819, the Texas annexation in 1845, the Oregon Country acquired by the treaty with Great Britain in 1846, the Mexican cession of western territories in . chapter 20 pre,post,exam Flashcards | Quizlet McCormick, interview with James G. Morgan, quoted in Morgans Into New Territory: American Historians and the Concept of US Imperialism (Madison, WI, 2014), 76. following military victory; independent in 1946, Annexed following military victory over Spain, Annexed in settlement with Britain 32 And it included the internment of Alaska Natives from the Aleutian Islands by the U.S. government. When we factor the territories in, were left not with the logo mapthe familiar compact and static land mass. 11 Nearly thirteen percent of its populace lived in its overseas colonies. Mariana Islands, United Nations Trust Territory; 1986 most islands adopt With time, Indian Territory was whittled down to Oklahoma. Two weeks before Dien Bien Phu, four nationalists entered the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., made their way to the upstairs Ladies Gallery, unfurled a Puerto Rican flag, pulled out pistols, and fired 29 rounds into the body politic below them. Following the United States' annexation of the Philippines, _____ led a revolt against the U.S. that resulted in more U.S. casualties than the number who . 22. The United States of America : including all its newly acquired territory. Both Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani marched in that parade. in 1979, United Nations Trust Territory; self-governing as Northern As the 1898 generation saw, a full history of the Greater United States is not just the story of overseas territories, but also of western ones. The books in this collection are in the public domain and are free to use and reuse. Title from title sheet. Jimmy M. Skaggs, The Great Guano Rush: Entrepreneurs and American Overseas Expansion (New York, 1994), 199. The matter of the date, December 7, 1941, emblazoned into national memory by Franklin Delano Roosevelts Day of Infamy speech, is somewhat misleading on this score. More recent work that explores the subordinated status of western territories includes Earl S. Pomeroy, The Territories and the United States, 18611890: Studies in Colonial Administration (Philadelphia, PA, 1947); Whitney T. Perkins, Denial of Empire: The United States and Its Dependencies (Leyden, 1962); Jack Ericson Eblen, The First and Second United States Empires: Governors and Territorial Government, 17841912 (Pittsburgh, PA, 1968); Andrew R. L. Cayton, The Frontier Republic: Ideology and Politics in the Ohio Country, 17801825 (Kent, OH, 1986); Peter S. Onuf, Statehood and Union: A History of the Northwest Ordinance (Bloomington, IN, 1987); Peter J. Kastor, The Nations Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America (New Haven, CT, 2004); Gary Lawson and Guy Seidman, The Constitution of Empire: Territorial Expansion and American Legal History (New Haven, CT, 2004); Sanford Levinson and Bartholomew H. Sparrow, eds., The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion, 18031898 (Lanham, MD, 2005); and Go, Patterns of Empire . All instructions are in the template file. Nevertheless, 8.85% is probably slightly high because, although it does not count black Filipinos and Guamanians (presumably very low numbers in 1940), it classes all non-white Puerto Ricans as black, whereas many were non-black. 41. It languished as a territory for 104 years between annexation and statehood. Pdf. In 1857, the United States began annexing guano islandsuninhabited islands possessing valuable fertilizer. SpanAmer War Webquestdoc (1).docx - Name: _ Period - coursehero.com Expansion . 27. Acquisition History - U.S. Department of Defense Rather, we encounter the United States as something new: a dynamic and heterogeneous polity, with borders shifting throughout North America, the Caribbean, the Arctic, and the Pacific. It featured a clean division between home front and battlefield and left the United States largely unscathed, with the sole and notable exception of the attack on Hawaii at Pearl Harbor. But he grew disillusioned and turned against the U.S. government, becoming, in the words of J. Edgar Hoover (who held him under surveillance for three decades), the guiding light of Puerto Rican nationalism. Why were so many new possessions located in the Pacific Ocean? In cases where the territory of a future state was not all annexed at once, I count from the time year by which the majority of its land was annexed. Yet Williamss school regarded 1898 as symptomatic rather than substantive: the small and visible tip of a much larger imperial iceberg. Only in Hawaii, Midway, and Howland did the vagaries of the international date line place the attack on December 7th. Despite his extraordinary career, Albizu doesnt have much of a place in U.S. historiography. United States Acquisitions and Annexations 1857-1904. The extraordinary maps they made showed the United States as it had become, not a contiguous mass but rather an empire with global reach. Course Outcomes explored in this module: Lab Report 328 Territories with no indigenous populations, such as Wake Island, are listed as unpopulated, although the United States often stationed military outposts on them. This was not a freak event. To speak only of formal acquisitions, explained Thomas McCormick, was just an intellectual game that the previous generation of historians had played to avoid confronting the centrality of American expansion to U.S. history. 7 Once one looked beyond colonies to the informal empire, the expansive force of the United States became apparent. A helpful overview of the significance of the colonies for the mainland is Alfred W. McCoy, Francisco A. Scarano, and Courtney Johnson, On the Tropic of Cancer: Transitions and Transformations in the U.S. Imperial State, in McCoy and Scarano, Colonial Crucible , 333. Overseas empire usually appears in textbooks as an episodea single chapter, set in 1898rather than as an enduring feature. (Lincoln, NE, 1984), esp. Boston, Small, Maynard & company. 31 Over the course of the war, Japan attacked every inhabited Pacific colony that the United States held, and it occupied the Philippines, Guam, Wake, and part of Alaska. J. Edgar Hoover to Harry Hopkins, July 17, 1943, FBIPR Files, Pedro Albizu Campos, FBI File No. Manua was annexed in 1904, then added to American Samoa. 1; and Rebecca Tinio McKennas study of a colonial hill station in American Imperial Pastoral: The Architecture of U.S. Colonialism in the Philippines (Chicago, IL, forthcoming). for $7.2 million; statehood 1959, Annexation of independent republic; statehood 1959, Purchased from Spain Andrene Everson (New York, 2007), 131. According to U.S. Bureau of the Census, Reports on Population, Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940 , vol. Perpetual Foreigners: Chinese Americans and the U.S. Zone in Austria (2,650): John D. Hilldring, American Policy in Occupied Areas (Washington, DC: 1947), 24; U.S. 29 Its remarkable, in fact, how many key figures in U.S. history sojourned in the overseas territories. The country claimed 94 such islands . It has to do also with something deeper: our conception of the United States. In a series of cases from 1901 to 1922, known as the Insular Cases , the Supreme Court considered whether the territories were part of the United States as referred to in the Constitution, i.e., it asked whether the Constitution applied to them. 2007-228. It had also laid claim to nearly all of Micronesia. 5 In my home city of Chicago, there is a public high school named after him (with an adjoining family learning center for teen parents named after Lolita Lebrn, the chief shooter in the 1954 House shootings). Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as This was a war, not over latitudes but points, in which particular spots on the mapthe Green Zone in Iraq, black-site prisons sprinkled throughout foreign countries, Guam, Guantnamo Bay, the all-important military base of Diego Garciatook on outsize significance. 37. The Library of Congress has accepted an estimate of one million Filipino fatalities, which also circulates in the Philippines.