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Missionaries
People who strove to convert natives to Christianity. -
Imperialism(Expansionism)
a type of government that seeks to increase its size, either by forcing through war or influencing through politics other countries to submit to their rule -
Yellow Journalism
a term used to describe a particular style of reckless and provocative newspaper reporting that became prominent -
Acquisitions
1803: Louisiana Purchase. Purchased from France for $15 million, the equivalent of $193 million in 2005. ...
1818: Red River Valley. ...
1819: Florida Purchase. ...
1845: Texas Annexation. ...
1846: Oregon Treaty. ...
1848: Mexican Cession. ...
1853: Gadsden Purchase. ...
April 9, 1867: Alaska Purchase. -
Monroe Doctrine
A paper splitting the europeans and Americans into two hemispheres. The europeans agreed to stay out of Americans territory and Americans agreed to stay out of European territory. -
Homestead Act of 1862
Encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange they had to pay small fees. -
Homesteader
Homesteading is a lifestyle of self sufficiency. When you can produce your own food or shelter ect. -
Civil war Amendments
The reconstruction amendments are the 13,14, and 15 amendments.They are what gave African Americans freedom and rights. -
Transcontinental Railroad
A railroad that connected the east and west sides of America. Started being built from both sides and met in the middle -
Chinese exclusion Act
Federal law signed by Chester Arthur. Banned all Chinese immigrant laborers. -
Assimilation
Smaller ethnic groups resemble bigger groups.a Ethnic group like the Akkadians into Sumerian -
industrialization
The development of industry in a country. A advance in factories. -
Immigration
The movement of foreigners into a different country. In America there are a lot of hispanic immigrants that come to Texas -
Rural & Urban
Rural areas are older and have less citizens. Urban areas are newer and have more citizens -
"Closing of the western frontier"
Frederick Jackson Turner annouced that the frontier was closed. It was a year after the OK land rush -
Klondike Gold Rush
migration by an estimated 100,000 people to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada. -
Spanish-American War
fought between the United States and Spain in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence -
Americanization
The culture of America being spread across the world. Things such as businesses and media. -
Alfred T mahan
Alfred Thayer Mahan was a United States naval officer and historian, whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century. -
Naval Station
From a complement of 1,669 on October 17, 1917, the new station had increased to a total of 12,693 on November 27, 1918. The new base carried the name Naval Operating Base, Hampton Roads, Virginia. -
Theodore(Teddy) Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. -
Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge was an American Republican Congressman and historian from Massachusetts. -
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 first great american desert.Made from aftermath of the railroads -
Urbanization
The change of rural to city type areas. Becoming more civilized
