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Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 1823. This document was signed by president James Monroe. -
Homesteader
Homesteading is a lifestyle of self-sufficiency. A homesteader is farmer, usually found growing crops. -
Homestead Act of 1862
This act was endorsed by Abraham Lincoln. This act reassured western migration by accommodating settlers with 160 acres of public land. In return, homesteaders paid a small fee and were required to complete five years of residence. -
Great Plains
The grassland that extends through the central portion of North America, from Texas northward to Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains. In 1862/1863, the U.S. government help homesteaders settle in the Great Plains -
"Civil War Amendments" (13,14,15)
The "Civil War Amendments", reconstruction amendments, were designed to ensure equality for recently emancipated slaves.
The 13th amendment banned slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment.
The 14th amendment defined a citizen as any person born in or naturalized in the United States (including recent freed slaved)
The 15th amendment prohibited the government from denying U.S. citizens the right to vote based on race, color, or past servitude. -
Transcontinental Railroad
A train route across the United States, finished in 1869. It was the project of two railroad companies: the Union Pacific built from the east, and the Central Pacific built from the west. The two lines met in Utah. -
Assimilation
Assimilation is taking in new information and trying your best to understand their view. This would be the minority group coming to see the dominant groups point of view. -
Industrialization
Industrialization is the wide scale development of industries in a country. Industrialization in the US peaked between 1870 and 1916. -
Rural & Urban
Rural is an area known as the outskirts.
Urban is an area where the population is high and had built environment features.
11 million people migrated from rural to urban areas between 1870 and 1920. In 1910, the minimum population to be categorized as urban was 2,500. In 1920, over 50% of the US was classified as urban. -
Imperialism (Expansionism)
Imperialism is the extension of a nation's power by territorial acquisition or economic and political dominance of other nations. The policy of imperialism aims at the creation of an empire. -
Immigration
Immigration is the international movement of natives without citizenship. The is the action of migration to permanently live in a foreign country. The most immigration happened in the colonial era from the 1880s to 1920. -
Missionaries
A missionary is a person sent by a church into an area to carry on evangelism or other activities, as educational or hospital work. -
Naval Station
This is basically where ships are stored for a war. More specifically, a command ashore whose mission is to provide local logistic support to units of the operating forces (as in ship repair, personnel administration, pilotage, aerology, flight control, medical care) -
Chinese Exclusion Act
This act was passed in 1882. Congress passed this act
prohibited Chinese immigration. -
Closing of the Western Frontier
In 1890, the director of the U.S. Census Bureau announced that the frontier was officially closed. The census had showed that a place with the population density less than two people / square mile, no longer existed. -
Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration of about 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon. Yukon is in north-western Canada. -
Yellow Journalism
"Yellow journalism" cartoon about Spanish–American War of 1898. Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, or sensationalism. -
Acquisition
An acquisition is the act of acquiring or gaining possession. Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines (for which the United States compensated Spain $20 million, equivalent to $588 million in present-day terms), were ceded by Spain after the Spanish–American War in the 1898 Treaty of Paris. -
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Spanish-American War
The Spanish–American War was fought between the United States and Spain. The two main causes were America's support the ongoing struggle by Cubans and Filipinos against Spanish rule, and the mysterious explosion of the battleship U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor. -
Americanization
Americanization is the influence of American culture. This influence includes technology, food, popular culture, etc. -
Urbanization
Urbanization is the population shift from rural areas to urban areas. This is also shows the population increase and the way society adapts to this in urban areas. -
Alfred T. Mahan
Alfred Thayer Mahan was a United States naval officer and historian. He was referred to as "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century." -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the US and the 25th Vice President. He has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the Medal of Honor. He was also an American statesman and writer. -
Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge was an American Republican Congressman and historian from Massachusetts. He led the successful congressional opposition to his country's participation in the League of Nations after World War I. -
Standford B. Dole
Sanford Ballard Dole was a lawyer and jurist in the Hawaiian Islands as a kingdom, protectorate, republic and territory. He was first the president of the Republic of Hawaii and first governor of the Territory of Hawaii after it was annexed by the United States.
