QUESTION PROMPT:
Explain the development of the US. expansionism in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and how it affected Hispanic communities in Texas, New Mexico, and Puerto Rico.
First, explain the national ideologies of that expansionism (Manifest Destiny and the Monroe Doctrine), the role of filibusters, how Hispanic communities living in Texas and New Mexico perceived their incorporation to the US, and the results of the Mexican-American War.
Then, focus on the Americanization of Puerto Rico in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War. In your answer, you need to use the following terms: U.S. Imperialism, Monroe Doctrine, Manifest Destine, Borderlands, filibustering, Mexican-American War (1848), Spanish-American War (1898), local elites.
Refer to class discussions and readings such as “Spanish Borderlands”, National Identity, and “Colonizing Mission.”
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