HIST 201 Lecture 1: Feb 8
5 Apr 2016
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According to standard interpretaions and explanaions, whites conquered the west because they had beter technology and a superior military force and they overwhelmed naive. Environmental factors signiicantly abeted the euro-american conquest of the west. Westward expansion: expanded through force (mexican-american war, also was able to expand though advocaing policies of setler colonialism. Colonialism is a form of colonialism in which an imperial power encourages setlers to move into a foreign region. Setlers then consent to government by that imperial power, thereby establishing that imperial power as their legiimate source of power and authority: american westward expansion was driven by a desire for a safety valve. for white industrial workers. Us government gives potenial white setlers living in the crowded east access to cheap land: donaion land claim act (1850) allowed setlers to claim up to 320 acres of oregon territory for . 25 a acre. The empire label over white setlement isn"t something we want it to be remembered by.
