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Urbanization
Making a city/area more urban. The population increases gradually. -
Missionaries
a person sent on a religious mission, promote in a foreign country. -
Great Plains
A large area of land that the U.S got from France in the Louisiana purchase. The land is very flat, west of the Mississippi river. -
Immigration
When you move from your homeland to another country. Example when the Irish and German's came to America -
Monroe Doctrine
Created by President James Monroe. He said that Europe can't get involved with western hemisphere's problems. -
Homestead Act of 1862
It encouraged people that wanted to move west by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land. -
Homesteader
Someone who goes to live and grow crops on land given by the government. In the 1800s, thousands of homesteaders settled on the prairies of the western United States -
"Civil War Amendments" (13,14,15)
aka: Reconstruction Amendments. This were created after the Civil war, that is why they are called the Reconstruction Amendments. -
Transcontinental Railroad
It connected the east coast to the west. (1,868 mi) It cut travel time in half. -
Assimilation
Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble those of a dominant group. -
Industrialization
The period of time when the economic changed a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
"Closing of the Western Frontier"
After the Oklahoma land rush. the director; Bureau announced that the frontier was closed. -
Spanish-American War
The war started because the U.S.S Maine blow up, American blamed the Spanish. America got many territories from the war. -
Imperialism
A country that power comes from or influenced by the military -
Yellow Journalism
When the news paper puts things in the paper that aren't really true. They don't really look into things, don't have a lot of info -
Klondike Gold Rush
migration an estimated if 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada -
Acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions are transactions in which the ownership of companies, other business organizations. America got Puerto Rico, Philippines, Guam -
Americanization
Outside of the United States in other countries when their culture is influenced by America. For example a McDonald's in China. -
Rural & Urban
Rural is the frontier land that does not have a lot of people living on it. And Urban is where a lot of people live such as New York. -
Alfred T. Mahan
a United States naval officer and historian
highly influential exponent of sea power in the late 19th and early 20th centuries -
Naval Station
warships and naval ships docked when they have no mission at sea or want to restock their ships -
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt
He was called a hero in the Spanish-American War.
He was the 26th President -
Henry Cabot Lodge
was an American Republican Congressman
received his PhD in history from Harvard. -
Sanford B. Dole
lawyer and jurist in the Hawaiian Islands
American missionary community to Hawaii, Dole advocated the westernization of Hawaiian government and culture
