01:050:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: American Historical Association, Frederick Jackson Turner, Frontier Thesis

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: American Studies
• Course: 01:050:101
• Professor: Cevasco

Document Summary

Imperialism: when one nation decides to steal land or authority from another nation, collecting colonies into an empire. Colonists: people from the imperial nation who live in other nations. Extractive colonialism: when one nation takes another nation"s resource for themselves (gold, oil, etc. ) Settler colonialism: when one nation decides to replace the people of another nation with themselves (by violence and forcing the second nation to abandon its culture) Examples of settler colonialism: us, canada, south africa. History professor at one point president of the american historical association (a professional group for history professors-it still exists) Us census declared closing of frontier in 1890. Us territorial expansion had not stopped since 1787 (and in fact would not stop afterwards)mapping us territorial expansion (all the while taking land from native nations) Movement towards overseas expansion, including annexation of hawaii, spanish, Turner, the significance of the frontier in american history .