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"Civil War Amendments" (13, 14, 15)
The 13th Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude. The 14th Amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. The 15th Amendment states that the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Missionaries
A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to proselytize or perform ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development. -
Industrialization
Industrialization is the period of social and economic change. Example would be Little Elm and how its grown. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a foreign policy statement originally set forth in 1823 which created separate spheres of European and American influence. The United States promised to stay out of European business and told the Europeans to stay out of the Western Hemisphere's business. -
Alfred T. Mahan
He was a naval officer. He wrote a book about imperialism that was very successful. His book influenced a lot of our acquisitions. -
Sanford B. Dole
Sanford Ballard Dole 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. -
Great Plains
In the early 1800s, few people lived on the Great Plains. The Great Plains are in the middle of the United States. People did not think the land was good for farming. In the Great Plains, land was cheaper. -
Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge was an American Republican Congressman and historian from Massachusetts. A member of the prominent Lodge family. -
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. 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 from March to September 1901 and as the 33rd Governor of New York from 1899 to 1900. -
Homesteader
Homesteading is a lifestyle of self-sufficiency. It is characterized by subsistence agriculture, home preservation of food, and may also involve the small scale production of textiles, clothing, and craftwork for household use or sale. -
Homestead Act of 1862
Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, the 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. -
Transcontinental Railroad
The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,912-mile continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Omaha, Nebraska/Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay. -
Imperialism (Expansionism)
Imperialism is a state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other areas. -
Immigration
This is when people from another country move to another country. Example would be Chinese people moving to America. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
This prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers. They were stealing peoples' jobs. So this act was put in. -
"Closing of the Western Frontier"
A year after the Oklahoma Land Rush, the director of the U.S. Census Bureau announced that the frontier was closed. The 1890 census had shown that a frontier line, a point beyond which the population density was less than two persons per square mile, no longer existed. -
Spanish-American War
The Spanish–American War was fought between the United States and Spain in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. -
Yellow Journalism
This is what started the Spanish-American war. Reporters basically were trying to sell a fight. Most of the things the said was false. -
Aquisitions
From the war we got Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Philippines. -
Naval Station
Naval stations are where the navy's boats can dock and re-up on everything. We basically got Hawaii just for this. -
Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada -
Americanization
It is the influence of American culture outside of America. It is everywhere. Examples of this would be McDonalds. -
Urbanization
Urbanization refers to the population shift from rural to urban residency, the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas. Example would be people moving from West Texas to Dallas. -
Assimilation
Cultural assimilation is the process by which a person or a group's language and/or culture come to resemble those of another group. Example would be The Akkadians into Sumerian culture adopting/adapting gods, writing, city life -
Rural & Urban
Rural areas consist of land, farms, villages, etc, while urban areas consist of cities, urbanization, etc.
