• immigration

    immigration
    a person of a different country goes into another and gets citizenship and rights.
  • Civil War Amendments;13

    Civil War Amendments;13
    no longer have to do a cruel and unusual punishment.
  • 14th amendment

    14th amendment
    he amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War.
  • 15th amendment

    15th amendment
    The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
  • Assimilation

    Assimilation
    early 1800s the U.S. government adopted policies aimed at acculturating and assimilating Indians into European-American society
  • rural and urban

    rural and urban
    rural is very populated
    urban is not so populated
  • Great Plains

    The Homestead Act and the Morrill Act were the two important land-grant acts that were passed in the Great Plains during the mid-1800s to help open the West to settlers
  • Industrialisation

    Industrialisation
    the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society.
  • Homesteader

    Homesteader
  • Homestead Act of 1862

    Homestead Act of 1862
    President Abraham Lincoln encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land.
  • Transcontinental Railroad

    Transcontinental Railroad
    The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,912-mile continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Omaha, Nebraska/Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay.
  • closing of the western frontier

    Frederick Jackson Turner and the frontier. A year after the Oklahoma Land Rush, the director of the U.S. Census Bureau announced that the frontier was closed.
  • Americanization

    Americanization
    The influence American culture and business practices popular culture technology or political events. bringing an American thing AE McDonalds to a foreign country like Japan.
  • Urbanization

    Urbanization
    the process of making an area more urban