Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Arguments for U.S. On March 1, 1784, just 47 days after the Treaty of Paris granting the United States independence was ratified, Virginia ceded its claims over the area north of the Ohio River to the federal government. It wound up its occupations, sometimes much faster than it might have (in 1943, Roosevelt suggested that the occupation of Korea should last forty years; it lasted three). 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. Certainly, in terms of size, current overseas holdings dont add up to muchall U.S. overseas territory today, including military bases, comprises an area smaller than Connecticut. 3 (1933): 44874. conduct an article review of this chapter, using the format below: Our narratives register not only the black experience but, moreover, the ways in which the changing position of African Americans drove key episodes in national history. sovereign, self-governing republic. Certainly, many inhabitants of the territories have regarded U.S. rule as illegitimate and seen themselves as inhabitants of, for example, the Hawaiian nation rather than of the United States. United States Acquisitions and Annexations, 1857-1904 United States positions (with date of acquiunion) 1047 Spheres of Influence 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). The tacit assumption is that the empire didnt matter for what came next. Imperial maps are discussed in Susan Schulten, The Geographical Imagination in America, 18801950 (Chicago, IL, 2001), 3844, 17680. 12. They shot five Congressmen, nearly killing one. Sources and figures (in thousands): South Korea (17,917), the Philippines (18,228), and Japan (76,224): Maddison Project Database, January 2013 update, Groningen Growth and Development Centre, www/ggdc.net/maddison ; Hawaii (815), Alaska (138), Puerto Rico (2,071), and the U.S. Virgin Islands (27): Current Population Reports , Series P-25, No. But moving it into the non-state column changes little. Between 1857 and 1903, the United States acquired many new territorial possessions around the globe. Paul Kramer, in his portrait of the United States as a nation-based empire, presents a significantly modified version of the Williams thesis that is skeptical of the clean formal/informal distinction: Power and Connection: Imperial Histories of the United States in the World, American Historical Review 116, no. organized, unincorporated U.S. territory under jurisdiction of Office of
Boston, Small, Maynard & company, 1904. Still, empire continues to guide our inquiries. 1848. For a fuller picture of how colonial encounters might change larger narratives of U.S. history, consider the Second World War. endobj
To speak only of formal acquisitions, . Albert Bushnell Hart and Herbert E. Bolton, Hart-Bolton History Maps (Chicago, IL, 1917), map A24. Discussion Board 5 12 (William B.) "The United States have always protested against the doctrine of international law which permits the subjugation of the weak by the strong. Bicknell, Edward. According to U.S. Bureau of the Census, Reports on Population, Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940 , vol. diss., University of California, Berkeley, 2014). Title from title sheet. The threewestern territories, overseas territories, and foreign basesfit together in overlapping but chronologically distinct arcs. currently an unorganized, unincorporated U.S. territory under
It would be hard to disagree with the Wisconsin-School assertion that U.S. global power rests on foundations other than territorial control. Alaska 1867 secretary of state William Seward buys this from Russia for 7.2 billion in gold-- called Sewards Folley Hawaii 1898 important coaling station and source of sugar, the McKinley tariff states that we have to pay tariff for sugar, so we overthrow the queen. It was entitled Greater United States. 19. 203. 37, To that accounting should be added the overseas military bases that the United States took during the warthe third arc in the history of the Greater United States. Purchased from Mexico for $10 million. With that, the United States was no longer a union of states alone but an amalgam of states and territories , which it has been ever since. (New York, 2006), 179. Discovery Channel Program Exercise in Support and Credibility, Minimum 500 Word Article Review Article Is Provided But historians have come to understand African-American history as central to U.S. history. 32 And it included the internment of Alaska Natives from the Aleutian Islands by the U.S. government. Includes notes and statistics table including population and distances. <>
Donald M. Seekins, Historical Setting, in Ronald E. Dolan, Philippines: A Country Study (Washington, DC: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, 1991), 41. Reasoning with a racist logicthe initial cases were decided by the same court that decided Plessy v. Ferguson it concluded that the bulk of the territories were unincorporated into the political body of the United States. In 1960, the non-state population including D.C. was 2.6% and it stayed between 1% and 3% thereafter. McCormick, interview with James G. Morgan, quoted in Morgans Into New Territory: American Historians and the Concept of US Imperialism (Madison, WI, 2014), 76. That narrative, I would argue, only makes sense if you dont count the colonies as parts of the United States. 3 Albizu founded Puerto Ricos Army of Liberation in the 1930s. We typically say that the end of the war left the United States in a global position of economic and political supremacy. 45. 40 By the time Alaska and Hawaii became states in 1959, the proportion of people living under U.S. jurisdiction but outside of the states had fallen from 51% to around 2%, and it has hovered between 1% and 3% ever since. As it gained power, it shed territory. ^ a b c d e f g h i j World Atlas. 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. With time, Indian Territory was whittled down to Oklahoma. 35. Examine the map of US acquisitions and annexations. This has been a common response of cities to urbanization in neighboring areas. The territorial acquisitions of the United States, 1787-1904, an historical review, - 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. Levittown, Puerto Rico, that is. 10 It is true that many of the currentinsular possessions of the United States are extraordinarily small (Wake Island: population 150; Swains Island: population 17). Prime meridians: Washington, D.C. and London. of the Interior, Annexed 1922; later airline refueling; currently uninhabited;
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40. For a widely read recent articulation of the Williams thesis that the United States has pursued imperialism by other means, see Richard H. Immerman, Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz (Princeton, NJ, 2010). Following are the historical territorial acquisitions of the United States : For information on internal territorial acquisitions, see List of U.S.-Native American treaties . ed. This intervention eventually brought about changes in the relationships of the United States with Hawaii, Samoa, and China. U.S. 45 But what we are learning is how important those small specks nevertheless are, as they act as staging grounds for precisely the kind of economic, military, and cultural interventions that the Wisconsin School emphasized. Caveat: 1945, occurring between decennial census enumerations in the U.S. mainland and at the end of a destabilizing war everywhere else, was not the best year for accurate population counts. Consider that, in 1940, African Americans made up less than nine percent of the population. You wont find him anywhere in the Oxford History of the United States , the New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations , or any of the major textbooksincluding those, like Howard Zinns Peoples History of the United States and James W. Loewens Lies My Teacher Told Me , explicitly designed to give voice to suppressed histories. Palin herself twice attended Alaska Independence Party conventions. 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. It was when the Viet Minh attacked the French air base at Dien Bien Phu, which ultimately pulled the United States into the Vietnam War. This was an intellectually transformative event. 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 . ch. ), 32 Sherman's march to the sea LC Civil War maps (2nd R. O. Evans and Company - Robertson, H. C. National expansion under the Constitution; or, Despotic power versus delegated authority. Dorr v. United States , 195 U.S. 138, 155 (1904) (Harlan, J. M., dissenting). In the span of only a few years, the United States had increased its size exponentially with the contentious annexation of Texas in 1845, the 1846 Oregon Treaty with Great Britain for half of the Oregon Country; and acquired California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming as a result of the Mexican-American War The first sixteen chiefs of staff, until 1948, all served in the colonies. John O'Sullivan (1813-1895), famously proclaimed that it was "our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence." In 2000, the Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York was dedicated to Albizu (and to the struggle of Vieques against the U.S. Navy). That figure excludes secret bases and some bases smaller than ten acres. 25 And the pattern continued: as older territories became states, new annexations brought new territories into the polity. It languished as a territory for 104 years between annexation and statehood. The Territory of the United States, 1845-1886 A map from 1886 of the United States showing the territories ceded by Mexico and the acquisition of Alaska. There is another aspect of the Second World War that deserves mention. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com. Congress officially annexed Alaska in 1884 America Acquires Alaska U. (Lincoln, NE, 1984), esp. ]d*d>&Pd,QMG{\T-8FFSI>rK}bbSh]Z")aqvTI*FI}jO~>(-lL%cd&ct2Pd{>t: 91
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Includes Sandwich Islands inset, world map inset, statistical tables, notes, and ill. 29,670. There has been an accelerating avalanche of high-profile books on U.S. overseas territory, especially the Philippines. Major accounts include Federico Ribes Tovar, Albizu Campos: Puerto Rican Revolutionary , trans. The comparison is enlightening. * I am grateful to Alvita Akiboh, Michael Allen, Daniel Bessner, Brooke Blower, Michael Falcone, John Immerwahr, Julia Irwin, Aaron OConnell, Andrew Preston, Daniel Sargent, and the Huntington Library Long-Term Fellows Working Group for their thoughts on this essay and to Christopher Capozzola for introducing me to the term Greater United States.. These were, it is important to state, not novelty maps. Fone Later L AUSTRALIA PACIFIC OCEAN IN 14 W 10 W IN W analyze this Document (notes), Home About Services Privacy Reviews Login, Copyright 2023 Academic Cave | Powered by Astra WordPress Theme, Click one of our contacts below to chat on WhatsApp. Writers, too, registered the change, as they cast about for new ways to refer to the country. Id like to propose a different unit of analysis, one that counts all of the land over which the United States claims sovereignty as part of the country, and as part of its history. Palins husband, an Alaska Native, was for years a registered member of the Alaska Independence Party. An acquisition occurs when a buying company . Anthony Rawlings (New York, 1971); Benjamn Torres, Marisa Rosado and Jos Manuel Torres Santiago, eds., Imagen de Pedro Albizu Campos (San Juan, 1973); Rosado, Pedro Albizu Campos ; Laura Meneses de Albizu Campos, Albizu Campos y la Independencia de Puerto Rico (San Juan, 2007); and Nelson A. Denis, War against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in Americas Colony (New York, 2015). Yet Williamss school regarded 1898 as symptomatic rather than substantive: the small and visible tip of a much larger imperial iceberg. Albizus long career defies easy summary. 43. 29, September 1, 1949, 3; American Samoa (16): American Samoa Statistical Digest (Pago Pago: 1994), 17; Guam and Micronesia (35 together): Hal Friedman, Creating an American Lake: United States Imperialism and Strategic Security in the Pacific Basin, 194547 (Westport, CT, 2001), 122; U.S. Profile of the Erie Canal, notes, and illustration in lower margin. The recent monographic literature is large; but see especially Kristin L. Hoganson, Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and the Philippine-American Wars (New Haven, CT, 1998); Louis A. Prez, The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography (Chapel Hill, NC, 1998); Mary A. Renda, Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. 2; Rebecca Lemov on Micronesia as a social scientific laboratory in World as Laboratory: Experiments with Mice, Mazes, and Men (New York, 2005), ch. 15. 52, July 27, 1951, 3; Panama Canal Zone (46): Current Population Reports , Series P-25, No. 39. Gift; Howard Roscoe; 1997. 286,541. At its establishment in 1834, Indian Territory extended from the top of present-day Texas to the Canadian border and from the Mississippi to the Rockies. 43 These little Americas wereand arepockets of extraterritorial control scattered throughout the world. Interior, Leased from Panama for $10 million, plus $250,000
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