How did the United States practice imperialism? How did they deal with the native peoples they displaced?

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

A. United States imperialism
1. proud of expanding their territory at other people's expense
2. called this America's "manifest destiny"
a. conquests gobbled up Mexican territory north of the Rio Grande, adding
most of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, and California to the
growing empire
3. treatment of native peoples
a. United States absorbed Mexicans, Canadians, and Native Americans by force
or threat
b. 1830s the United States had begun an attempt to sweep all the native
peoples of the Midwest and Southeast into a small, resource-poor Indian
territory of Oklahoma
c. Cherokees called the Trail of Tears, thousands died from disease, exposure,
and starvation
d. last quarter of the nineteenth century, a war of extermination continued
against remaining Native Americans
e. decline of probably 50 percent during the nineteenth century
4. United States census bureau declares land frontier closed and United States turns to
Pacific expansion
a. white settlers overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893 with American
military and diplomatic support
b. annexation to the United States followed in 1898
1. American Samoa in the South Pacific and the Philippines, Guam, and
Puerto Rico
c. Cuba became a virtual United States protectorate, and the United States
took permanent possession of a naval base there at Guantánamo Bay
d. acquired the Canal Zone from Panama in 1904 after enabling Panama to
secede from Colombia
5. whole American hemisphere became a United States sphere of influence