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industrialization
The development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale. -
urbanization
process of making an area more urban -
immigration
coming to live permanently in a foreign country. -
homesteader
Broadly defined, homesteading is a lifestyle of self-sufficiency. It is characterized by subsistence agriculture, home preservation of foodstuffs, and it may or may not also involve the small scale production of textiles, clothing, and craftwork for household use or sale. -
civil war amendments 13, 14, and 15
13- abolished and continues to prohibit slavery to this day.
14- all persons born or naturalized in the United States are American citizens including African Americans.
15- prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
transcontinental rail road
The First Transcontinental Railroad in North America was built in the 1860s, linking the well developed railway network of the East coast with rapidly growing California. The main line was officially completed on May 10, 1869. -
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. -
rural and urban
Urban areas are created through urbanization and are categorized as cities, towns, conurbations or suburbs. In urbanism, the term contrasts to rural areas such as villages and hamlets and it contrasts with natural environment. -
americanization
making a person or thing American in character or nationality. -
assimilation
Absorbing Aboriginal people into white society through the removing of children from their families. The intent of this policy was the destruction of Aboriginal society. -
great plains
The Great Plains (sometimes simply "the Plains") is the broad expanse of flat land (a plain), 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.