-
Assimilation
A policy in which a nation forces or encourages a subject people to adopt its institutions and customs -
Imperialism
Is a term that refers to the economic, military, and cultural influence of the United States on other countries, first popularized during the presidency of James K. -
Monroe Doctrine
The monroe doctrine was a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas, president James Monroe first stated the doctrine during his seventh annual state of the union address to Congress -
Alfred T. Mahan
He was a United States naval officer and historian, whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century -
Sanford B. Dole
He 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, Dole advocated the westernization of Hawaiian government and culture -
Henry Cabot Lodge
He was an American republican congressmen He was the best known for his positions on foreign policy, especially his battle with President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 over the Treaty of Versailles. The failure of that treaty ensured that the United States never joined the League of Nations. -
Theodore Roosevelt
He was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He also served as the 25th Vice President of the United States. -
Transcontinental Railroad
The Pacific Railroad Act chartered the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad Companies, and tasked them with building a transcontinental railroad that would link the United States from east to west -
Homestead act of 1862
The Homestead Act opened up settlement in the western United States, allowing any American, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land -
Homesteader
The first homesteader to settle in Beatrice, Nebraska, 1863, copyright 1904. Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862 -
Rural & Urban
Eleven million people migrated from rural to urban areas between 1870 and 1920, and a majority of the twenty-five million immigrants who came to the United States in these same years moved into the nation's cities. By 1920, more Americans lived in cities than in rural areas. -
Industrialization
The Industrialization involved a shift in the United States from manual labor-based industry to more technical and machine-based manufacturing which greatly increased the overall production and economic growth of the United States, signifying a shift from an agrarian to an industrial economy widely accepted to have been a result of Samuel Slater's introduction of British Industrial methods in textile manufacturing to the United States -
Civil War Amendments. 13,14,15
The thirteenth Amendment made slavery illegal, the fourteenth Amendment guaranteed basic rights and citizenship to African Americans and he fifteenth Amendment gave the right to
vote to African American men. -
Naval Station
This is a base that has ships, airplanes and a lot of war machines they are in charge to protect the United States -
Americanization
As the notion that all American immigrant groups should leave behind their old ways and they have get into the culture of the United States. -
Urbanization
The urbanization in the United States happened late 18th and early 19th centuries, when the city star growing and a lot of people start coming to the United States and the cities start getting bigger and bigger. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur, that prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
Immigration
The United States experienced major waves of immigration during the colonial era, the first part of the 19th century and from the 1880s to 1920 most of the immigrants came for jobs opportunities but others came here for freedom of religion. -
Great Plains
The Great Plains is the broad expanse of flat land, much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland. Parts of 10 states of the United States Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico and the three Prairie Provinces of Canada Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta and portions of the Northwest Territories are within the Great Plains proper -
Closing of the Western Frontier
In 1890 the superintendent of the U.S. Census announced that rapid western settlement meant that "there can hardly be said to be a frontier line." In just a quarter century, the far western frontier had been settled. Three million families started farms on the Great Plains during these years. -
Yellow journalism
The main impact that yellow journalism had on the Spanish American War was to push the United States towards getting involved in that war. William Randolph Hearst is famous for having used his newspapers to push for American involvement in the war. ... By doing so, they inflamed American opinion against Spain. -
Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike gold rush was when Skookum Jim Mason, Dawson Charlie and George Washington Carmack found gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada's Yukon Territory, they had no idea they they would set off one of the greatest gold rushes in history -
Spanish-American War
The Spanish-American War was a conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America -
Acquisitions
The United States acquired Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines as territories. Cuba technically gained its independence, but United States soldiers remained in the country for years, commonly intervening in the new nation's politics. -
Missionaries
They were a protestants expansionism and mission efforts within the U.S., and as a direct extension of these home missions, the American foreign missionary movement developed.
