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Missionaries
A person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country. -
Naval Station
The United States Navy claims 13 October 1775 as the date of its official establishment, when the Second Continental Congress passed a resolution creating the Continental Navy. -
Industrilization
The wide scale development of industries in a country and or state. -
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Spanish-American War Acquisitions
Louisiana Purchase
West Florida
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Rural and Urban
Rural places are areas such as villages and hamlets. While Urban places are areas transformed from rural through urbanization. -
Civil War Amendments (13,14,15)
The 13th Amendment abolished slavery and any involuntary servitude. The 14th Amendment gave rights to Citizens. The 15th Amendment prohibited the government from taking such rights away -
Monroe Doctrine
It was a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas, that started in 1823 -
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Alfred T. Mahan
Alfred Thayer Mahan was a United States naval officer and historian, whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century. -
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Sanford B Dole
Sanford Ballard Dole was a lawyer and jurist in the Hawaiian Islands as a kingdom, protectorate, republic and territory. A descendant of the American missionary community to Hawaii, Dole advocated the westernization of Hawaiian government and culture -
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Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge was an American Republican Congressman and historian from Massachusetts. -
Homesteader
Homesteaders are self sufficient people that make their own food and clothes -
Great Plains
Is a gigantic plot of flat land, most of it is covered by steppe, and grassland. The Great Plains lies west of the Mississippi River tallgrass prairie in the United States -
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Transcontinental Railroad
A train route across the United States, finished in 1869. It was the project of two railroad companies: the Union Pacific built from the east, and the Central Pacific built from the west. -
Homestead Act
The Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land for $10. -
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"Closing of the Western Frontier"
A year after the Oklahoma Land Rush, the director of the U.S. Census Bureau announced that the frontier was closed. -
Imperialism ( Expansionism)
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Created in May, 6 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers -
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Klondike Gold Rush
It was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada in search of Gold -
Yellow Journalism
Journalism that is based upon sensationalism and exaggeration -
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Spanish American War
The United States declared war on Spain after the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898. This war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris on December 10, 1898. -
Americanization
Is the influence American culture and business have on other countries. Such as a McDonalds that are in Japan. -
Assimilation
When a cultural and or group starts to resemble a bigger group. -
Urbanization
A population shift in which a rural area becomes urban. -
Immigration
When someone moves to a foreign country permanently.
