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Immigration
When people leave their country to go to a new one which they are not originally from -
Industrialization
The advancement and expansion of industries across regions -
Assimilation
the process of one being consumed into a culture or place -
Homesteader
One who makes their own lifestyle. -
Great Plains
Stretch of land west of the Mississippi River mainly grassland and prairie. -
Monroe Doctrine
American policy opposing European colonialism in America. -
Sanford B Dole
He was a jurist and lawyer in Hawaii, he advocated the westernization of Hawaiian government and culture. -
Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry was from Massachusetts and was a congressman that received his PhD from Harvard in history. -
Alfred T. Mahan
US historian and naval officer -
Homestead Act of 1862
Group of laws allowing people to own land from the government -
Transcontinental Railroad
Railroad that connected Omaha, Nebraska, and Iowa with the Pacific Coast. -
"Civil War Amendments"
These amendments were set to secure equality for liberated slaves and abolish slavery -
Imperialism
A country extending their power over a less powerful country -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Law that banned all Chinese laborers from immigrating -
"Closing of the Western Frontier"
The frontier closed a year after the Oklahoma Land Rush. In 1890 a census showed the point past the population density was less than 2 people per square mile. So the frontier line no longer existed. -
Klondike Gold Rush
Migration of nearly 100,000 explorers to the region of Klondike -
Spanish-American War
War between American and Spain. -
Yellow Journalism
Journalism focused on the negatives of their topic and making it bad. -
Acquisition
When a country was bought or won from another. We gained Puerto Rico and Cuba from Spain in the Spanish-American War. -
Theodore Roosevelt
26th president of the United States and an American statesman and writer -
Americanization
Americanizing people who have immigrated to the United States -
Urbanization
Increase in population causing an area to go from rural to urban leading to people having to adjust to the change. -
Missionaries
One who is out on a religious mission often in foreign countries -
Naval Station
One's mission to provide support to those in operating forces -
Rural & Urban
Urban areas are towns and cities while rural areas are villages and smaller areas
