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Assimilation is about fully understanding information or ideas.
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The process of making an area more urban.
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US policy of opposing European colonialism. The principle of the policy is that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US.
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The development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale.
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13nd Amendment: Abolish slavery nationwide
14nd Amendment: Granted citizenship to all persons and provided all citizens equal protection under the laws.
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The Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. This was signed into law by president Abraham Lincoln.
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A lifestyle of self-sufficiency.
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The first Transcontinental Railroad was a long railroad line that connected existing eastern U.S. rail network at Omaha, Nebraska, lowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco bay.
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United States federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.
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The Census Bureau announced the end of the frontier, meaning there was no longer a discernible frontier line in the west.
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A migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada.
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War fought between the US and Spain. US declared war on Spain following the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana harbor.
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People that are coming to a foreign country to live permanently.
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Human settlements are classified as rural or urban depending on the density of human-created structures. Urban areas include towns and cities, different from rural areas that include villages and hamlets.
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The first westward-bound pioneers bypassed the Great Plains. Until into the 19th century, the Great Plains were called the Great American Desert.
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Project ulterior motives of a dominant nation. Imperialism is a policy of expanding a country's power. Expansionism is a policy of territorial or economic expansion.
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Americanization is to make a person or thing American in character or nationality.
