Writing the 3-Part for US History II – Aids to help you

Three types of things:

Things you misunderstood because of the author’s use of italic and of a phase about a future event. 1

Things you misunderstood and why Merriam Webster Online could have saved you. 1

Things you misunderstood and why a table could have saved you. 1

 

Things you misunderstood because of the author’s use of italic and of a phase about a future event

On page 187, the author wrote “The world must be made safe from democracy.”

On page 503, Woodrow Wilson’s phrase “to make the world safe for democracy [bold added]” used in World War I.

Things you misunderstood and why Merriam Webster Online could have saved you

https://www.merriam-webster.com/

America (when we talk about ourselves) BUT Americas (notice that s)

Merriam-Webster Online

Americas \ ə-​ˈmer-​ə-​kəz  , -​ˈme-​-​ \ the lands of the western hemisphere including North, Central, and South America and the West Indies

 

Territory – that word can mean that the US has no right to touch it

Merriam-Webster Online

aa geographic area belonging to or under the jurisdiction of a governmental authority

ban administrative subdivision of a country

ca part of the U.S. not included within any state but organized with a separate legislature

da geographic area (such as a colonial possession [such as of another country]) dependent on an external government but having some degree of autonomy

2aan indeterminate geographic area

 

Sovereignty or a sovereign power

Merriam-Webster Online
asupreme power especially over a body politic

bfreedom from external control AUTONOMY

ccontrolling influence

3one that is sovereign especially an autonomous [having the right or power of self-government}state

 

Sovereign debt (and I will explain this) versus regular debt

Merriam-Webster Online

a state of being under obligation to pay or repay someone or something in return for something received a state of owing

deeply in debt to creditors

 

Things you misunderstood and why a table could have saved you

Reading is not just for repeating. When you make a table for yourself, it helps you notice! Making a hand-written table on a piece of notebook paper turned sideways could have saved you. You would not have written so many words in your table since you only needed reminders to yourself. In the 3rd Part, you do not have to cover all of these, but understand all and cover examples. Reminder: this is still the age of empire without apologies.

 

Page

Date

Area

Who/What We Fear

Our Action

272

1844

Texas (was Mexican colony, rebelled and attempted to join US, then a republic)

British and their hopes for “clashes between a puppet Texas and the Yankees” - French also

Annexation of Texas based on a “mandate” from the 1844 election

276

1845+

California (was Mexican colony)

British – rumor “buy or seize”

Attempt to buy from Mexico

Later Mexican War

318

1863

Mexico (a sovereign nation on our border)

A real danger: French invade and set up a puppet emperor

Diplomacy and caution (Civil War required all our troops)

319

1865

French pull out; puppet to firing squad

Diplomacy + realistic threat of war because in 1865 able to send experienced troops

 

 Here is the summary from Lesson 4:

Before the Civil War, the Pageant textbook explains that United States had the Monroe Doctrine:

·         In 1823, a combination of verbal support for new republics (185) and the ”Self-Defense Doctrine” by avoiding an enemy “foothold” (187)

What is self-defense: the act of defending oneself, one's property, or a close relative” or “an affirmative defense (as to a murder charge) alleging that the defendant used force necessarily to protect himself or herself because of a reasonable belief that the other party intended to inflict great bodily harm or death” (URL:  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-defense)

·         In the 1840s, with Texas annexation because of feared British desires (272)

·         In the 1840s, combined with “manifest destiny,” a term usually associated with newspaperman John Louis O’Sullivan

·         In the 1840s, with the Mexican War and the subsequent Mexican territories gained to the West Coast, including the “golden prize” of California rumored to be a British desire (276) 

·         In the 1860s during the American Civil War, with the French taking over Mexico and US action limited until after the defeat of the South when Secretary of State Seward uses diplomacy and treats to get the French to leave.