US History Unit 2 Key Terms

By DyshRogers
  • 1540

    Great Plains

    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 .