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Missionaries
A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to proselytize or perform ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development. -
"Civil War Amendments" (13, 14, 15)
The 13th amendment was meant to abolish slavery.
The 14th amendment was meant to give citizenship to all people.
The 15th amendment was meant to prohibit stated from disfranchising voters. -
Assimilation
It was an attempt to destroy native Americans identity. They gathered up all the Indians and pushed them into a certain place and if they couldn't live up to the Americans expectations they would be killed. -
Monroe Doctorine
The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 1823 -
Industrialization
The industrial revolution was the beginning of factories and Americans wanted young girls or immigrants working in those factories. The factories were a harsh, cruel place to work in. The industrialization was to manufacture goods, supplies, and machinery. -
Homestead Act of 1862
The Homestead act allowed certain Americans to have 160 acres. The settlers would have to pay $1.25 per acre. He could only obtain the land after 6 months of residency -
Chinese exclusion act
This act made it were Chinese couldn't immigrate into the US. It was signed by Chester A. Arthur, in 1862 -
Homesteader
A way that people lived in order to survive. They farmed crop, raised animals, small production of clothes and house supplies -
Transcontinental Railroad
It was the first rail to have gone through he existing eastern U.S. rail network at Omaha, Nebraska/Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay. The Indians would attack the Americans that were on the train because they felt threatened. -
Immigration
Immigration is when somebody moves to a different place that do not have a citizenship or have no nationality there. -
"Closing of the Western Frontier"
The Indian tribes finally decided to give up and made a pact with the Americans to keep some land in order to have their life spared. For those that survived life will never be the same for them. -
Great plains
It was a broad expanse flat land. The land belong to a bunch of animals. During the westward expansion the Americans decided to buy the land for 15 million dollars -
Yellow Journalism
Yellow journalism and the yellow press are American terms for journalism and associated newspapers that present little or no legitimate well-researched news while instead using eye-catching headlines for increased sales. -
Spanish-American War
The Spanish–American War was fought between the United States and Spain in 1898 -
Imperialism (Expansionism)
American imperialism is partly based on American exceptionalism, the idea that the United States is different from other countries because of its specific world mission to spread liberty and democracy. -
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. -
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. -
Urbanization
Urbanization was to make certain places into cities for people to live. Cities were places that can hold a lot of people, faster transportation, comfortable living environment. It mainly happened due to the industrial revolution -
Rural & Urban
Rural places like farms, cabins.
Urban places were cities, places that a lot of people live in. -
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. -
Stanford 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. -
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." -
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. He also served as the 25th Vice President of the United States from March to September 1901 and as the 33rd Governor of New York from 1899 to 1900. -
Americanization
Immigrants from other countries moved into America looking for a better life. Americans thought of this as a chance to teach the immigrants about the spirit of America. The Americans taught the immigrants about the Americans culture and and taught them english. -
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.
