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Great Plains
Broad expansion of flat lands, much covered by prairie, grassland, and steppe. It lies west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains. Apart of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and Texas. -
Alfred T. Maham
Alfred Thayer Mahan was a United States naval officer and historian, whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century". -
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. -
Industrialization
period of social and economic change that transforms an agrarian group to a industrial society. Involves reorganizing the economy due to manufacturing. -
Homestead Act of 1862
Several laws in the US of how someone could purchase/acquire land. Land typically government or public property called "homestead". -
Homesteader
Self sufficiency life style. Categorized by subsistence agriculture, home preservation of food, and may contain small scale production of clothing, textiles, and craftwork for housework or sale. -
Transcontinental Railroad
The first transcontinental railroad was a 1,912 mile continuous railroad line, It was made through 1863-1869. It connected the existing eastern US rail network to Omaha, Nebraska with the Pacific coast on Fransisco Bay. -
Civil War Amendments
The reconstruction Amendments are the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments to the United Staes Constitution. They were passed between 1865 and 1870, five years right after the Civil War, therefore these amendments are often referred to "the Civil War Amendments". -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882. It prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
Acquisition
In 1895 the Cuban patriot and revolutionary, José Marti, resumed the Cuban struggle for freedom that had failed during the Ten Years' War. Cuban juntas provided leadership and funds for the military operations conducted in Cuba. Spain Possessed superior numbers of troops, forcing the Cuban generals Maximo Gomez and Antonio Maceo, to wage guerrilla warfare in the hope of exhausting the enemy. -
Yellow Journalism
Also known as yellow press, is the journalism and newspaper associated with no legitimate backed up researched news. Used to try to persuade people to do or believe things. -
Closing the Western frontier
A year into the land rush in Oklahoma, the director of the US Census Bureau announced that the frontier was closed. the 1980 census had shown that a frontier lone, a point beyond which the population density was less than two people per square mile, no longer existed. -
Immigration
International movement of people Into a country/land they are not native in nor possess citizenship in. Have to be cleared by government they are trying to enter, can be long and hard process. Those who cross without approval or papers are illegal and can arrested or deported. -
Americanization
Americanization is the influence of American economics on other countries way of life. It changes their music, food, clothing, social media. Not only does is influence their social choices, but also their political techniques and technology. -
Urbanization
process of overall population growth living in cities and suburbs. Often linked to industrialization and modernization. Large numbers of people leave farms to work in the city. Rural urban migration continued to expand.
