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Missionaries
A member of a religious group that give service such as teaching or doing hospital work. They wanted to make others believe in their religion so they would spread their message -
Assimilation
Undestanding something or getting used to a culture or place. The immigrants had to get used to the life in America because it was probably different than where they came from. -
Monroe Doctrine
This was made for European countries to stay out of the western hemisphere and the US said that if they did that they they wouldn't get in any European business -
Alfred T. Mahan
He was a US naval officer and served in the US Navy -
Sanford B Dole
He was president of Hawaii and the first governor there -
Henry Cabot Lodge
He served in the US Massachusetts house of representatives and ran for senate in 1893, he was also republican -
Theodore Roosevelt
He was the 26th president of the United States he said "talk softly but carry a big stick" which meant to not threat but to make other countries aware of the power that the US had -
Chinese Exclusion Act
They banned Chinese people to come to the United States and they weren't being treated equal because of the way they looked. Also people in the Unites States were prohibited to hire someone that was chinese -
Homestead Act of 1862
Settlers got 160 acres of land and only had to pay a small fee although for 5 years they had continuous residence until they could officially call themselves the land owners of those 160 acres. -
Homesteader
A homesteader is a person that agreed to go by the Homestead act in 1862 or that did go through the homestead act for 5 years -
Civil War Amendments (13,14,15)
These 3 amendments were made to make sure that people that were slaves were treated with equal rights such as any other person. -
Transcontinental Railroad
This is a train route in the United States and it transported goods that were in long distances and it joined the union pacific and central pacific -
Industrialization
Industrialization is when innovation happens. For example that in factories machines took over the jobs of people because the work they did was faster than people doing the job. -
Imperialism
When a larger country takes advantage of the smaller countries that are not as wealthy and have good resources that could be useful for the larger country. -
Great Plains
The Great Plains is a piece of land that is flat. Its grassland and it's part of Texas -
Immigration
when someone from a different place comes and moves to a different country (foreign). Some people immigrate to work, or stay to live in that place or to visit. -
"closing of the western frontier"
Frederick Jackson said that the frontier was closed so basically people couldn't immigrate to another place or send riches or power. -
Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike River in Canada had a massive Gold Rush and people started going there in search to get Gold -
Yellow Journalism
Yellow journalism is basically newspaper or journals that are eye catching to the reader although the information on there is false or exaggerated. They do this to get more profit and money. -
Spanish American War
A war fought between the United States and Spain. This happened because of the explosion of battleship uss maine. -
Aquisitions
The United States Gained Puerto Rico, Guam, and Philippines from the Spanish American War. -
Americanization
Since immigrants came to the U.S. they started the Americanization Movement and that is when a person becomes American. They can become american as well as a pet or anything else if they come from a different place. -
Naval Station
where ships are kept to get repairs or want to restock. -
Urbanization
When a place grows for example like a city or the population of a place gets bigger throughout time with more and more people. -
Rural & Urban
Rural areas are where they are not close to a city or town but they are outside of that and what isn't rural is urban. Not that many people live in rural areas more than in urban.
