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| MAKING CONNECTIONS | Recognize the larger developments and continuities within and across chapters by answering these questions. |
ACROSS TIME AND PLACE Read again the documents from “Thinking Like a Historian: Representing Indians” in Chapter 16. In what ways might ideas about Native Americans have informed attitudes toward Hawaiians, Filipinos, and other people of color overseas? How might this explain which peoples Woodrow Wilson included and excluded in his ideal of “national self-determination”? Write a short essay in which you explain how Americans’ policies and attitudes toward native peoples within North America shaped U.S. foreign policy between 1898 and 1918. You may also wish to review relevant information in Chapters 15 and 20 and consider how attitudes toward African Americans shaped white Americans’ racial assumptions in this era.
VISUAL EVIDENCE Review the images “American Soldiers on a French Battlefield, 1918”; “Flying Aces”; and “Women Riveters at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, 1919.” What do they tell us about how the 1910s, especially the experiences of World War I, changed gender expectations for men and women? At the start of the war, would you rather have been a young man or a young woman? Why? How did new opportunities vary according to a young person’s race and ethnicity? (The “Selling Liberty Bonds” posters may also be useful in considering this question.)