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Imperialism
a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. -
Immigration
The process of someone from a foreign country coming into another country. And having to learn all about the country they are entering. -
Urbanization
The shift from rural to urban. Farms to factories and big businesses. -
Rural And Urban
Rural is Farms and Ranches. Urban is cities and factories. -
Homesteader
Homesteading is a lifestyle of self-sufficiency. It is characterized by subsistence agriculture, home preservation of food, and may also involve the small scale production of textiles, clothing, and craftwork for household use or sale. -
Industrialization
The making of huge industrial companies. Or factories. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 1823. -
Alfred T. Mahan
Alfred Thayer Mahan was a United States naval officer and historian -
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 -
Great Plains
The Flat land in the middle of the United States. -
Henry cabot lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge was an American Republican Congressman and historian from Massachusetts. A member of the prominent Lodge family, he received his PhD in history from Harvard University. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909 -
Homestead act of 1862
the Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. -
Civil war amendments
The Reconstruction Amendments are the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution, passed between 1865 and 1870, -
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 -
Chinese Exclusion act
Prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
Assimilation
When a minority or immigrant gradually adapts to his or her new culture -
Closing of the western frontier
the U.S. Census Bureau announced that the frontier was closed. The 1890 census had shown that a frontier line, a point beyond which the population density was less than two persons per square mile, no longer existed. -
Yellow Journalism
journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration. -
Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. -
Spanish- American war
The Spanish–American War was fought between the United States and Spain in 1898. -
Acquisitions
Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines (for which the United States compensated Spain $20 million, equivalent to $588 million in present-day terms), were ceded by Spain after the Spanish–American War in the 1898 Treaty of Paris. -
Americanization
The process of turning or making things American -
Naval Station
A naval base, navy base, or military port is a military base, where warships and naval ships are docked when they have no mission at sea or want to restock. Usually ships may also perform some minor repairs. -
Missionaries
A person of a religion sent to another area to promote their religion.
