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Americanization
The act of turning a person or thing American. You can do that by either character or nationality. -
Missionaries
Missionaries are the Spanish and Catholic. The Puritan of New England and some settlers in Virginia became the first Protestant groups to engage in mission work in the early 1600s. -
Alfred T. Mahan
Alfred was an American naval officer and historian who was an exponent of sea power in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was also a revolutionary analysis of the importance of naval power as a factor in the rise of the British empire. -
Industrialization
The making of industries in a country or region. The process by which an economy goes from primary agricultural to one based on the manufacturing of goods. -
Rural & Urban
Rural is villages and hamlets, which contrasts with urban. Urban is created through urbanization and are cities, towns, conurbations or suburbs. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to take control of any independent state in North or South America. -
Homesteader
It is a settler under the Homestead Act. It allowed nearly any man or woman a "fair chance." -
Homestead Act of 1862
The Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange for that, the homesteaders paid a small fee and were required to 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, that connected eastern U.S. rail network. The Railroad was built crossing the western half of America and it was pieced together between 1863 and 1869. -
Civil War Amendments (13, 14, 15)
The thirteenth amendment made slavery illegal and abolished slavery. The fourteenth amendment guaranteed basic rights and citizenship to people, African Americans. The fifteenth amendment also gave African American men the right to vote. -
Imperialism (Expansionism)
The extension of a nations power by territorial acquisition or economic and political dominance of other nations. A policy of expanding a country's power and regulate through diplomacy or military force. -
Immigration
The act of entering a foreign country to live in. Living in a country that you are not originally from. -
Great Plains
The Great Plains were called the Great American Desert. The first westward-bound pioneers bypassed the Great Plains. -
Assimilation
The process of taking in and acknowledging information or ideas. Fully understanding everything that is or could be important. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first law implemented to prevent all members of a specific ethnic or national group from immigrating. -
Closing of the Western Frontier
Frontier is defined as a "region at the edge of a settled area." Frontier was often categorized as the western edge of settlement. -
Henry Cabot Lodge
A recipient of the first Ph.D. in political science awarded by Harvard University, Lodge served in both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. Cabot is most remembered for his opposition to the League of Nations and, the Treaty of Versailles. -
Sanford B. Dole
Dole was president of the Republic of Hawaii and, after its annexation to the United States in 1898, first governor of the Territory of Hawaii. -
Klondike Gold Rush
A rush of thousands of people in the 1890's toward the Klondike gold mining district in northwestern Canada after gold was discovered. -
Yellow Journalism
Yellow Journalism is journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration. -
Acquisitions
The acquisitions that we got from the Spanish-American War are Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, were ceded by Spain after the Spanish-American War in 1898 Treaty of Paris. -
Spanish-American War
The United States declared war against Spain following the sinking of the Battleship Maine in the Havana harbor on February 15, 1898. The U.S. also supported the ongoing struggle of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines for independence against Spanish rule. -
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt
Theodore was governor of New York before becoming U.S. Vice President. He was also known for his anti-monopoly policies and ecological conservationism, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his part in ending the Russo-Japanese War. -
Naval Station
The training ships were replaced by naval training stations such as St. Helena, officially known as Naval Training Station, Norfolk. St. Helena was established in 1908 on a site along the Elizabeth River, just opposite the navy yard. -
Urbanization
The procedure of making a place/area more urban. It is turning a place that was once not urban, or rarely urban, and turning it into full urban.
