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Industrialization
The development of industries in a country or region -
Monroe Doctrine
Originated by President James Monroe in 1823 that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is potentially a hostile act -
Alfred T. Mahan
An American Naval officer who was best known for his exponent of sea power -
Sanford B. Dole
AN American statesman also a president of the Republic of Hawaii and after it’s annexation to the United States in 1898 he was the first governor of Hawaii -
Henry Cabot Lodge
An American Republican Congressman who is best known for receiving the first Phd. in political science and his opposition to the League of Nations and Treaty of Versailles -
Great Plains
Grassland Prairie region of North America -
Theodore Roosevelt
Best known for his heroism in the Spanish-American War and Roosevelt Corollary added to Monroe Doctrine -
Homestead Act
Encouraged settlement west by offering settlers 160 acres of land for $10 and if they stayed on it for five years it was theirs -
Homestead
A house,especially a farmhouse,and outbuildings -
Civil War Amendments
These amendments were intended to guarantee freedom to former slaves and to establish and prevent discrimination in civil rights to former slaves and all citizens -
Transcontinental Railroad
A train route across the United States finished in 1869.Two companies connected in the middle where Union Pacific built from the east and Central Pacific built from the west -
Imperialism
A policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force -
Chinese Exclusion Act
An act that prohibited Chinese laborers do immigrate to the United States -
“Closing of the Frontier”
The frontier was closed following the year of The Oklahoma Land Rush due to their only being less than two people per square mile -
Klondike Gold Rush
A migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region in North Western Canada -
Spanish American War
Cause by the explosion of the USS Maine the United States and Spain went to war in 1898 -
Yellow Journalism
Journalism based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration -
Naval Station
A command ashore whose mission is to provide local logistic support to units of the operating forces -
Immigration
The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country -
Missionaries
People who travel far from home for an extended period of time to spread faith and help others -
Americanization
The action of making someone or something American in character or nationality -
Urbanization
The process of making an area more urban, population shift from rural to urban -
Acquisitions
Something gained as a result of something,the U.S. gained Puerto Rico,Guam,and the Philippines as a result of the Spanish American-War -
Rural and Urban
Rural is out in the country with farms and villages, and Urban is in the cities and suburbs -
Assimilation
The process of adapting or adjusting to the culture of a group or nation
