Americanization

US History Unit 2 Key terms

  • 1001

    Acquisitions (Major ones from Spanish-American War)

  • Naval Station

    Naval Station
    On October 13, 1775, the Continental Congress voted to fit out ships, and the Marine Committee, later appointed, sent the first Continental squadron to sea, under the command of Esek Hopkins, for the purpose of capturing munitions.
  • Missionaries

    Missionaries
    a person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country.
  • Alfred T. Mahan

    Alfred T. Mahan
    U.S. Naval Officer won civil war campaign medal and spanish campaign medal
  • Homestead Act of 1862

  • Transcontinental Railroad

    Transcontinental Railroad
    The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,912-mile continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869
  • Henry Cabot Lodge

    Henry Cabot Lodge
    American Republican Congressman and historian from Massachusetts.
  • Sanford B. Dole

    Sanford B. Dole
    Lawyer and Jurist in the Hawaiian Islands. First President of the republic of Hawaii. First Governor of the territory of Hawaii.
  • Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt

    Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt
    26th U.S. President. 25th Vice President of the United States from March to September 1901 and as the 33rd Governor of New York from 1899 to 1900.
  • Assimilation

  • Industrialization

  • Immagration

  • Rural & Urban

  • "Civil War Amendments" (13,14,15)

  • "Closing of the Western Frontier"

  • Homesteader

  • Great Plains

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Klondike Gold Rush

  • Spanish-American War

  • Monroe Doctrine

  • Imperialism (Expansionism)

  • Yellow Journalism

  • Americanization

    Americanization
    the action of making a person or thing American in character or nationality.