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Amendment 13
The amendment for abolishing slavery. -
AMENDMENT 15
That the U.S Constitution prohibits the federal government from denying a citizen the right to vote based on their color of their skin, or race. -
Imperialism
Imperialism is a state policy, practice, extending your power, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other areas -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 182 -
Alfred T Mahan
Alfred Thayer Mahan was a United States naval officer and historian, he might be the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century -
Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge was an American Republican Congressman and historian from Massachusetts. He was also a member of the prominent Lodge family -
Homestead Act
The Homestead act were laws in the U.S by which one person could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain. -
Homesteader
a person with land and buildings where a family makes its home or a tract of land acquired under the Homestead Act. -
Amendment 14
granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S -
transcontinental railroad
The Transcontinental Railroad was a continuous railroad line that wa constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the eastern U.S. rail network at Omaha -
Industrializaton
Development of industries in a country. -
Immigration
people coming over to a foreign country -
The Chinese exclusion act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States law signed by President Chester A. , which prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers into America. -
Rural & Urban
Urbanization is classified as urban areas like cities, towns conurbation or suburbs. Rural areas are villages and hamlets. -
Closing Of Western Frontier
The “Frontier” is defined as “a region at the edge of a settled area”. The “American Frontier,” began with the first days of European settlement on the Atlantic coast and the eastern rivers. From the start, the “Frontier” was most often categorized as the western edge of settlement. The frontier is define as a region at the edge of a settled area. A frontier is categorized as the western edge of settlement. -
Spanish-American War
A war between Spain and the United States, fought in 1898. We got territory from the war like Cuba and puerto rica. -
Yellow Journalism
journalism that is based upon sensationalism and rude exaggeration -
Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by at least 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region. The goal was to reach the gold fields, most took the route through the ports in Southeast Alaska. -
Great Plains
Is a expanse of flat land, much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River. -
Acquisition
public excitement about the museum's recent acquisitions. the purchase of one business enterprise by another: the acquisition of a rival corporation; mergers and acquisitions. -
Naval Station
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 -
Assimilation
taking in and completely understand information or ideas. -
Americanization
making a person or a thing American in nationality. -
Theodore Teddy R.
Theodore Roosevelt was a political leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Roosevelt was president from 1901 to 1909. -
Urbanization
the process making a place more urban than before. -
Sanford B. dole
Sanford Ballard Dole was a lawyer and jurist in the Hawaiian Islands as a kingdom, protectorate, republic and territory. -
Amendment 15
The right to vote -
Missionaries
Somebody sent on a religious mission, especially sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country or to spread it.
