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Immigration
The international movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship. -
Naval station
13 October 1775 as the date of its official establishment, when the Second Continental Congress passed a resolution creating the Continental Navy. -
Urbanization
refers to the population shift from rural to urban residency, the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas, and the ways in which each society adapts to this change. -
Missionaries
African-American slaves and, after the Civil War, freedmen, were another target of home missions. ... Within this context of activist Protestant expansionism and mission efforts within the U.S. -
Industrialization
is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society, involving the extensive reorganisation of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 1823. -
Imperialism(Expansionism)
is a term that refers to the economic, military, and cultural influence of the United States internationally. -
Alfred T.Mahan
was a United States naval officer and historian, whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century”. -
Sanford B.Dole
was a lawyer and jurist in the Hawaiian Islands as a kingdom, protectorate, republic and territory. -
Henry Cabot Lodge
was an American Republican Congressman and historian from Massachusetts. A member of the prominent Lodge family, he received his PhD in history from Harvard University. -
Homesteader
a person owning a homestead. US and Canadian a person who acquires or possesses land under a homestead law,a person taking part in a homesteading scheme. -
Homestead Act of 1962
May 1862,s the Homestead Act opened up settlement in the western United States, allowing any American, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land. The Homestead Act (May 20, 1862) set in motion a program of public land grants to small farmers. -
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. -
Civil War Amendments
The Reconstruction Amendments are the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution, passed between 1865 and 1870, the five years immediately following the Civil War. -
Assimilation
Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble those of a dominant group. -
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. -
Closing of the western Frontier
the Census Bureau announced the end of the frontier, meaning there was no longer a discernible frontier line in the west, nor any large tracts of land yet unbroken by settlement. -
Yellow Journalism
Yellow journalism and the yellow press are American terms for journalism and associated newspapers that present little or no legitimate well researched news while instead using eye-catching headlines for increased sales. -
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 between 1896 and 1899. -
Spanish-American War
Spain renounced all claim to Cuba, ceded Guam and Puerto Rico to the United States, and transferred sovereignty over the Philippines to the United States for $20 million. -
Acquisitions
The Treaty of Paris which ended the Spanish–American War was signed. The treaty transferred control of the Philippines from Spain to the United States. -
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt
unexpectedly became the 26th president of the United States in September 1901, after the assassination of William McKinley. -
Americanization
is the influence American culture and business have on other countries, such as their media, cuisine, business practices, popular culture, technology, or political techniques. The term has been used since at least 1907. -
Rural & Urban
was defined as including all territory, persons, and housing units within an incorporated area that met the population threshold. The 1920 census marked the first time in which over 50 percent of the U.S. population was defined as urban. -
Great Plains
Grassland prairie region of North America, extending from Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, in Canada, south through the west-central United States into Texas.
