Week 4 Discussion

This week we explore the age of American Imperialism. Your readings including the Digital HIstory's chapter on how the United States became a world power. You also have two videos and a podcast to review. For this discussion, explain the tactics that the United States used in expanding its territories at the turn of the 20th Century. Why do the narrators of the podcast Throughline describe Minor Keith's business relations with Central American countries as "American colonialism"? Is there a difference between the actions of Minor Keith and the federal government's intervention in island countries in the Pacific? In other words, we are considering the concepts of "colonialism" and "imperialism" here...