US History Unit 2 Key Terms

  • Great Plains
    1540

    Great Plains

    A wide flat land .
  • Industrialization

    Industrialization

    The growth of businesses in a country or region all around the world.
  • Urbanization

    Urbanization

    The process of making a area more like a town or city .
  • Immigration

    Immigration

    The option\choice you make to stay in a country permanently .
  • Homesteader

    Homesteader

    A land with its own land and buildings occupied by the owner of the house.
  • Monroe Doctrine

    Monroe Doctrine

    A united states policy .
  • Alfred T. Mahan

    Alfred T. Mahan

    He was a United States naval officer and historian.
  • Sanford B. Dole

    Sanford B. Dole

    Was a lawyer in Hawaii.
  • Imperialism (Expansionism)

    Imperialism (Expansionism)

    A project ulterior motives of a dominant nation.
  • Henry Cabot Lodge

    Henry Cabot Lodge

    A American Republican and historian from Massachusetts.
  • Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt

    Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt

    American statesman and writer and was the 26th president.
  • Homestead Act of:1862

    Homestead Act of:1862

    A law that was made in the 1860's that offered just about 160 acres of public land.
  • Transcontinental Railroad

    Transcontinental Railroad

    It connected the existing eastern U.S. railroad network.
  • ''Civil War Amendments'' (13,14,15)

    ''Civil War Amendments'' (13,14,15)

    They was the Reconstruction Amendments which made slaves free from legal , social , political restrictions and liberated.
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act

    United States federal law.
  • 'Closing of the Western Frontier''

    'Closing of the Western Frontier''

    A area at the edge of a settled area.
  • Klondike Gold Rush

    Klondike Gold Rush

    A migration to reach the gold fields.
  • Spanish-American War.

    Spanish-American War.

    The United States and Spain fought.
  • Yellow Journalism

    Yellow Journalism

    Journalism that is about sensationalism and crude exaggeration.
  • Acquisitions

    Acquisitions

    Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines as territories.
  • Americanization

    Americanization

    To make or become American in character; take into the customs and institutions of the U.S.
  • Rural and Urban

    Rural and Urban

    Rural is more of a city with big buildings and tall building while Urban on the other hand is like the country with villages and a lot of land for farming .
  • Naval Station

    Naval Station

    A place where the command normally which includes seaports which includes and integrates the shore activities.
  • Missionaries

    Missionaries

    People that go on religious missions .
  • Assimilation

    Assimilation

    To absorb to take in as ones own bring conformity with customs and attitudes .