can anybody please explain me what this question mean

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Compare and contrast views of United States overseas expansion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Evaluate how understandings of national identity at the time shaped these views.

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Are you taking the APUSH class? The teacher can help you to understand the question. It is very self-explanatory:

Compare and contrast how people viewed the US’s expansion, overseas, during the 1800s and 1900’s.

Then, EVALUATE how US national identity shaped these views at that time.

@APUSHhh compare and contrast: find similarities and differences between the two viewpoints

Evaluate: How did the US’s national identity shape the above viewpoints?