unit 2 key terms

  • Industrialization

    Industrialization
    a change in which people go from Agrargian society to a changed industry society
  • monroe doctrine

    monroe doctrine
    The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas
  • homestead act of 1862

    homestead act of 1862
    he Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land
  • homesteader

    homesteader
    a person owning a homestead US and Canadian a person who acquires or possesses land under a homestead law. a person taking part in a homesteading scheme
  • missionaries

    missionaries
    a person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country.
  • Civil war amendments(13,14,15)

    Civil war amendments(13,14,15)
    These amendments are about freedom and there is no right for anyone to own a slave no more
  • transcontinental railroad

    transcontinental railroad
    that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Omaha Nebraska Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast
  • Transcontinental Railroad

    Transcontinental Railroad
    was the project of two railroad companies the Union Pacific built from the east and the Central Pacific built from the west.
  • immigration

    immigration
    mmigration is the international movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle or reside there, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens.
  • Chinese exclusion

    Chinese exclusion
    The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester it made it so no more Chinese immagration
  • imperialism

    imperialism
    a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force
  • yellow jouralism

    yellow jouralism
    journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration.
  • sanford b.dole

    sanford b.dole
    Sanford Ballard Dole was a lawyer and jurist in the Hawaiian Islands as a kingdom, protectorate, republic and territory
  • Spainsh-american war

    Spainsh-american war
    The Spanish–American War was fought between the United States and Spain
  • closing of the western frontier

    closing of the western frontier
    when the people of America had started to close down some of the land making it no more 2 people per square inch
  • henry cabot lodge

    henry cabot lodge
    Henry Cabot Lodge was an American Republican Congressman and historian from Massachusetts
  • klondlike gold rush

    klondlike gold rush
    The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon
  • klondlike gold rush

    klondlike gold rush
    The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon
  • alfred t. mahan

    alfred t. mahan
    Alfred Thayer Mahan was a United States naval officer and historian, whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist
  • acquistions

    acquistions
    Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines (for which the United States compensated Spain $20 million were ceded by Spain after the Spanish–American War in the 1898 Treaty of Paris.
  • Americanization

    Americanization
    Americanisation is the influence American culture and business have on other countries such as their media, cuisine, business practices, popular culture, technology, or political techniques.
  • theodore roosevelt

    theodore roosevelt
    Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States
  • urbanization

    urbanization
    Use to say that the population is moving to urban areas and ways they adapt in that urban areas.
  • rural and urban

    rural and urban
    means that more Americans moved to urban areas and that less people live in the rural area
  • Assimilation

    Assimilation
    Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble those of a dominant group
  • great pIains

    great pIains
    A a lot of flat land covered in desert and grass and. it was also called the American great land
  • navel station

    navel station
    one of the biggest navel bases we have here in the united states