American Civilization Midterm

• Texts are affected by their cultural environment
• Texts affect their cultural environment

July 4th 1776

• "all men"
• "life liberty and the pursuit of happiness"

Manifest Destiny was the idea that white Americans were divinely ordained to settle the entire continent of North America. The ideology of Manifest Destiny inspired a variety of measures designed to remove or destroy the native population.

• the US believes that it serves as an example for the rest of the world
• America has to convince the American people that what they are doing is right

The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its indigenous allies against the United Kingdom and its own indigenous allies in British North America, with limited participation by Spain in Florida. It began when the United States declared war on 18 June 1812.

• a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries

The European powers, according to Monroe, were obligated to respect the Western Hemisphere as the United States' sphere of interest. President James Monroe's 1823 annual message to Congress contained the Monroe Doctrine, which warned European powers not to interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere.

1. non-colonization: the US opposed to any new colonies in the Americas
2. non-intervention: the demand that the European powers remain uninvolved in the affairs of New World Nations
3. non-interference: accepting the presence of the remeining European colonies in the Americas and keeping aloof from European affairs

adding physical terrritory to a country

Imperialism is when one country exercises power over another through various methods of control. It describes an economic, political, and social system in which one country subjugates others, and brings them under its control.

using hard power to impose control on overseas-people

establishing relations with other countries

the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.

• the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
  • "a deep vein of xenophobia and nativism"

People comming from countries where many people already immigrated from.

The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census. It completely excluded immigrants from Asia.

It began after 1965.

Poeple comming from countries not many people have immigrated from before.

While it mocks the racism of (often) white women, it also enforces negative stereotypes about women in general.