Where US imperialism went, so did women, and of course women were already in places where the US went. US imperialists gave indigenous people they encountered two choices: the male soldier, or the female teacher. They were going to Americanize them one way or the other. Indigenous people responded differently depending on the location and their unique history. Two great examples are US imperialism in Hawaii and the Philippines, where important and powerful women resisted US expansion, all while American women took up the "White-Woman's Burden."
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