https://padlet.com/srodriguez1208/p4tstp8z4nt95puk How Asian American have been impacted by the term Americanization. en-us 2021-05-25 02:45:01 UTC 2025-07-30 20:33:17 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/srodriguez1208/p4tstp8z4nt95puk/wish/2595609574 In our reading "Sea to Shining Sea," I found it interesting how this article from 1848 used wording to not only put down Europeans' actions as "conquer only to enslave" and how the US action as "conquer only to bestow freedom." This demonstrates not only America creates myths but how the master narrative has been the "land of the free" for a long time. ]]> 2023-05-18 02:50:41 UTC https://padlet.com/srodriguez1208/p4tstp8z4nt95puk/wish/2595609574 https://padlet.com/srodriguez1208/p4tstp8z4nt95puk/wish/2595637949 What starting early 1500 with Spain claiming the southwest region of the US, and slowly, as the years went by, more and more Europeans came to take land from Natives for gold, land, and other resources. It reached the point that in 1889 after Indigenous people had been forced to leave in small reservations, settlers took their "surplus" land, triggering the Oklahoma Land Run. By 1907 settlers they outnumbered indigenous people in the Indian territory. This one place supposedly meant for them was again no longer theirs; it shows how much America tried to erase indigenous people. This depiction of "Indigenous people as savages at war with civilization, Americans were able to view the west as a violent place" goes to support American creating its own origin story.]]> 2023-05-18 03:09:32 UTC https://padlet.com/srodriguez1208/p4tstp8z4nt95puk/wish/2595637949 https://padlet.com/srodriguez1208/p4tstp8z4nt95puk/wish/2595647062 The media and political leaders justified imperialism and genocide by claiming that expansion was a good thing. They argued that conquering land westward was important for bestowing freedom and democracy to others. ]]> 2023-05-18 03:15:59 UTC https://padlet.com/srodriguez1208/p4tstp8z4nt95puk/wish/2595647062 https://padlet.com/srodriguez1208/p4tstp8z4nt95puk/wish/2595648692 This was a form of resistance from Indigenous people, where according to "Wovoka's prophecy, would restore the Indigenous world as it was before colonialism, making invaders disappear and the buffalo return."]]> 2023-05-18 03:17:13 UTC https://padlet.com/srodriguez1208/p4tstp8z4nt95puk/wish/2595648692 https://padlet.com/srodriguez1208/p4tstp8z4nt95puk/wish/2595652716 It was popular belief that the new world should be purified from other races, claiming that Anglo-Saxons were of the "noble race". People believed that contact with Mexicans or Indigenous people would damage the purity of the new world. It was believed that it was destiny for the Anglo-Saxon race to occupy the entire continent. ]]> 2023-05-18 03:20:19 UTC https://padlet.com/srodriguez1208/p4tstp8z4nt95puk/wish/2595652716