You should write one well-formed essay on these chapters that explores the questions below. I want one well-formed essay, not separate answers to each question. Your response must be based on the Immerwahr chapters. Clicking around on the internet for answers to the questions I have posed to you will be rewarded with a low grade. Give page number in brackets from time to time so I will know where in the assigned reading you found your information. Papers written with artificial intelligence programs will receive no credit.
How was the United States transformed through expansion from the Mexican-American War onward? What was Theodore Roosevelt’s role as an imperialist? How did the United States get involved in Cuba and the Philippines, and how did its involvement disappoint Cuban and Filipino hopes? What did the United States’ conquest and occupation of the Philippines look like? Give specifics. Hint: it wasn’t pretty.
In a two-page paper on the LaFeber reading, which is from The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations. Volume II: The American Search for Opportunity, 1865 – 1913 (1993), you are to discuss why the United States got involved in Nicaragua, Honduras, and Mexico during the period discussed in the reading, and what the effects of US intervention were on those countries. The paper on LaFeber should get at least to the middle of page two and should not be longer than two pages. Your paper must be based on the LaFeber material.
I want to see that you have done a close reading of the Immerwahr chapters and of the excerpt from LaFeber’s book and can argue forcefully on the basis of what you have learned from them.
Best wishes, Joseph Cartolano