USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR

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What is “annexation”?

(A) ** When a country takes control of new territory.

(B) When a country frees territory that it controls.

(C) When a country frees another group of people from imperialist rule.

(D) When a country rebels against it’s imperial rulers.

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Annexation is when a country forcefully asserts sovereignty and control over a different country’s territory. It usually involves the use of the military and is unilateral. The occupying power declares territorial control, and the occupied has no say.

Concept note-2: -Annexation is the process of bringing property into the City limits. It is one of the primary means by which cities grow. Cities annex territory to provide urbanizing areas with municipal services and to exercise regulatory authority necessary to protect public health and safety.

Concept note-3: -annexation, a formal act whereby a state proclaims its sovereignty over territory hitherto outside its domain. Unlike cession, whereby territory is given or sold through treaty, annexation is a unilateral act made effective by actual possession and legitimized by general recognition.

Concept note-4: -transitive verb. If a country annexes another country or an area of land, it seizes it and takes control of it. Rome annexed the Nabatean kingdom in AD 106. Synonyms: seize, take over, appropriate, acquire More Synonyms of annex.

Concept note-5: -Under international law, annexation is when one country forcibly asserts control and sovereignty over another country’s territory. This usually follows military occupation. Annexation is unilateral. Territorial control is declared by the occupying power; the other party gets no say.