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Urbanization refers to the population shift from rural to urban residency. Urbanization is very popular and common in the Little Elm area.
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The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas.
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Alfred Thayer Mahan was a United States naval officer and historian, who John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century."
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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.
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Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President.
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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.
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President Abe encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. They did had to pay a small filling fee.
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These amendments were designed to ensure equality for recently emancipated slaves. These amendments were very to me and I'm pretty sure it was important to a lot of African Americans.
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The United States acquired Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines as territories. Cuba technically gained its independence.
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Assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble those of a dominant group. An example of this is two football teams coming to together to hate one team.
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This railroad was a 1,912-mile continuous railroad line. It connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Omaha, Nebraska/Council Bluffs, Iowa.
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Imperialism is a state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other areas.
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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.
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The act of trying to live in a foreign country permanently. The biggest immigration race is hispanics.
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This was a law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.
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A year after the Oklahoma Land Rush, the director of the U.S. Census Bureau announced that the frontier was closed.
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This a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada.
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(fun fact: this was on our test).The Spanish–American War was fought between the United States and Spain in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of the USS Maine.
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This is known for making newspaper and using exaggeration.
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A person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country.
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A rural area or countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Urban is a city or town.
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Americanization is the influence American culture and business have on other countries. In my opinion China is the biggest at from sports all they to there restaurants.
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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. Usually ships may also perform some minor repairs.
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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.
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The Great Plains is the broad expanse of flat land. Much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland.
