• immigration

    immigration

    the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.
  • great plains

    great plains

    The Great Plains is the broad expanse of flat land, much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River tallgrass prairie in the United States and east of the Rocky Mountains in the U.S. and Canada
  • industrialization

    industrialization

    Industrialisation or industrialization is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society, involving the extensive re-organisation of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing.
  • monroe doctrine

    monroe doctrine

    a united states policy that opposes european countries
  • alfred t mahan

    alfred t mahan

    he was a united states naval officer. he was a historian. and americas most important staritgeist
  • sanford b dole

    sanford b dole

    lawer and jurusit in the hawian islands a decendant of the ameircan missionaire communtiy of hawwia
  • missornaries

    missornaries

    he was member of a religious group sent into an area to proselytize ministries of service,
  • theodore roosevelt

    theodore roosevelt

    he was an american statesmen writer. he was the 26th president he was also vice prisdent
  • henry cabot lodge

    henry cabot lodge

    american rebluiciman congressmen. histrorian from massachhtues.a member of promniet lodge familt
  • homesteader

    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.
  • homestead act of 1862

    homestead act of 1862

    The Homestead Acts were several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a "homestead.”
  • transcontential rail road

    transcontential rail road

    a 2000 mile long rail road. that goes from coast to coast.
  • 13th 14th 15th amendment

    13th 14th 15th amendment

    The 13th Amendment banned slavery and all involuntary servitude, except in the case of punishment for a crime.
    The 14th amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War.
    The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote
  • imperialism

    imperialism

    a way of gaining power by taking other peoples land
  • naval station

    naval station

    stations around the world where ships can safley fill up such as the uss marine
  • Chinese exclusion act

    Chinese exclusion act

    a law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese people
  • closing of the western frontier

    closing of the western frontier

    Frederick Jackson Turner and the frontier. A year after the Oklahoma Land Rush, the director of 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.
  • assimilation

    assimilation

    Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble those of a dominant group.
  • klondike gold rush

    klondike gold rush

    100000 prospectors in an immigration to klondoke region of the yukon
  • spanish american war

    spanish american war

    a war fought between the americas and the spanish after the exlosion of the uss maine
  • yellow journalism

    yellow journalism

    the american term for newspapers with conflicts that are highly doubtable
  • rural & urban

    rural & urban

    Urban areas are created through urbanization and are categorized by urban morphology as cities, towns, conurbations or suburbs. In urbanism, the term contrasts to rural areas such as villages and hamlets and in urban sociology or urban anthropology it contrasts with natural environment.
  • americanization

    americanization

    In countries outside the United States of America, Americanization or Americanisation is the influence American culture and business have on other countries, such as their media, cuisine, business practices, popular culture, technology, or political techniques. The term has been used since at least 1907.
  • urbanization

    urbanization

    Urbanisation refers to the population shift from rural to urban residency, the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas, and the ways in which each society adapts to this change.