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Monroe Doctrine
It was a United States policy from keeping European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 1823. President James Monroe did not want Europeans to colonize in America because want them no longer in America. -
Missionaries
Missionaries are members of a religious group sent into an area to perform ministries, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development. African-American freedmen were another target of home missions. Hundreds of white and black missionaries went to the American south after the Civil War, and tried to better the conditions of white racism and black poverty which still overcame there. -
Homestead Act of 1862
President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, signed the Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. The Homestead Act led to the giving out of 80 million acres of public land -
Homesteader
Homesteader is the owner or holder of a homestead, also someone who settles lawfully on government land with the purpose to acquire title to it. -
"Civil War Amendments" (13, 14, 15)
The 13th amendment abolished slavery, the 14th amendment guaranteed basic rights and citizenship to African Americans, and the 15th amendment gave voting rights to African American men. The Civil War Amendments basically gave right to African Americans as a whole and made them equal. -
Industrialization
Development of industries on a large scale in a country or region. For example the typewriter became a big thing and grew. -
Transcontinental Railroad
Transcontinental Railroad is a network of railroad tracks that cross a continental land mass with endings at different oceans or continental borders. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
It was a US federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese people. The law made the Chinese banned from the US and they were alienated. -
Alfred T. Mahan
He was a US naval officer and historian, who was called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century." He fought in the Civil War and in 1886he became president of Naval War College at Newport, RI. -
"Closing of the Western Frontier"
By 1893, the Census Bureau was able to claim that the entire western frontier was now occupied. Settlement west of Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Lousiana averaged just 1 person per square mile. -
Sanford B. Dole
Sanford was a lawyer and jurist in the Hawaiian Islands as a kingdom, protectorate, republic and territory. Dole recommended the westernization of Hawaiian government and culture. Dole was the first and only president from 1894 to 1898. -
Yellow Journalism
An American term for presenting little or no legitimate well-researched news while instead using eye-catching headlines for increased sales. It emphasizes sensationalism over facts. In 1896, to boost sales of his New York Journal, Hearst hired Outcault away from Pulitzer, launching a fierce bidding war between the two publishers over the cartoonist. -
Klondike Gold Rush
It was a migration by an average of 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. Gold was discovered there by local miners on August 16, 1896. Some became wealthy, but the majority went in vain. -
Spanish-American War
Is when the United States and Spain fought in 1898. The war began because of the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. The main issue was Cubans trying to get their independence. -
Theodore Roosevelt
He was an American writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. As a leader of the Republican Party, he became a driving force for the Progressive Era in the US in the early 20th century. His face is on Mount Rushmore, alongside George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln. -
Acquisitions
The United States acquired Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines as territories. They all controlled these for a long period of time until they got their independence -
Americanization
the American culture influence on other countries, such as media, cuisine, business practices, popular culture, etc. For example McDonalds originated in America but other countries began to make McDonalds as well. -
Naval Station
Also called naval base is a military base, where warships and naval ships are docked when they have no mission at sea or want to restock. Some naval bases are temporary homes to aircraft that usually stay on the ships but are being maintenanced while the ship is in port. -
Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge was an American Republican Congressman. He is known for his positions on foreign policy, especially his battle with President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 over the Treaty of Versailles. The failure of that treaty ensured that the US never joined the League of Nations. He failed the US basically. -
Imperialism (Expansionism)
It is a policy that lets a nation extend its power by getting lands by purchase, diplomacy or military force. Imperialism is often considered morally reprehensible. The term is frequently in international propaganda to discredit an opponent’s foreign policy -
Assimilation
when an ethnic minority sacrifices their own culture to integrate into society. An example is the cultural assimilation of Native Americans where the United States tried to transform Native American culture to American culture. -
Great Plains
A prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into Texas. For a date example, Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc., was established on April 1, 1976 by company founder Roy Applequist. -
Urbanization
Urbanization is both the increase in the percentage of a population that lives in cities and the increase in the size of those cities. An example is Africa slowly increasing their urban population. In 2000 the urban population reached nearly 38% then in 2015 it reached 45%. -
Rural & Urban
Urban areas include town, cities, and suburbs while rural areas include villages and hamlets. Urban is more busy and less contact with nature more so rural being calm and quiet and more exposed to nature. -
Immigration
When someone moves to another country is immigration. An example is the people from Mexico, Spain, Germany, etc. moving to the United States to make a better life for themselves.
