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Alfred T. Mahan
Mahan published The Influence of Sea Power upon History.
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Assumilation
The process of adapting or adjusting to the culture of a group or nation, or the state of being so adapted
It established Native American boarding schools which children were required to attend. -
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Rural & Urban
The gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas, and the ways in which each society adapts to this change.
Rural areas have a low population density and small settlements and Urban areas have towns and cities -
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imperialism (Expansionism)
They are interlinked but slightly different. Imperialism is about expansion within country powers and Expansionism is about economic expansions. -
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Monroe Doctrine
Monroe warned European powers not to interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere.
So the Us and promised to keep their distance -
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Missionaires
It is religious group organized to spread Christianity.
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Sanford B. Dole
Dole was a jurist in the Hawaiian Islands.
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Acquisitions
The major territories that us got:American Samoa, The Federated States of Micronesia, the Guam,The Northern Mariana Islands,The Republic of the Marshall Islands, The Republic of Palau
MinorMidway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll , Wake Atoll , Baker Island and Howland Island , Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll , Kingman Reef , and Navassa Island. -
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Homestead Act of 1862
a law passed by Congress in 1862 that gave 160 acres of government land to any citizen in the westward expansion.
Anyone older than 21 years old were able to provide that they never took up arms against the US government. -
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Homesteader
US and Canadian person who owns land under a homestead law.
A argument happened over what the federal government should do with its newly purchased lands in the West. -
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"Civil War Amendments"(13,14,15):
They were designed to ensure equality for recently emancipated slaves.
Slaves couldn't work for others but themselves. -
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Transcontinental Railroad
It was firstly made in Utah
they are a constant network of railroad trackage that crosses a continental land mass with terminals at continental borders. -
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Industrialization
Its the process by which an economy is transformed from primarily agricultural to one based on the manufacturing of goods.
The industrial growth that began in the United States in the early 1800's continued steadily up to and through the American Civil War. Still, by the end of the war, the typical American industry was small. -
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Immigration
Movements Of Individuals Into An Area Occupied By An Existing Population.
Established an annual quota and the national-origins system, which was to characterize immigration policy for the next 40 years. -
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Chinese Exclusion Act
United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur
It was a big turning point in U.S. relations with the Asian immigrants and their families. -
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"Closing of the Western Frontier"
The Western Frontier a region at the edge of a settled area.
Closed b/c Turner saw it was ending. -
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Henry Cabot Lodge
Republican U.S. senator longer than 31 years.
American Republican Congressman and sponsored the unsuccessful Lodge Bill for protection of blacks to vote. -
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Klondike Gold Rush
This was one of the greatest gold rushes in history.
a migration by about 100,000 miners to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada. -
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Yellow Journalism
It was the first coined newspaper and it was used to document the Spanish War to push the U.S. towards getting involved. -
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Spanish-American War
War that was fought between the United States and Spain.
Reason was Spain sank the battleship Maine in Havana harbor February 15th. -
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Great Plains
A flat land covered by prairies and grasslands.
The first westward-bound pioneers came across the now Great Plains. -
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Theodore(Teddy)Roosevelt
He prepare the United States for its expanded role on the world stage.
He also wanted to build up the country's defenses -
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Americanization
A variety of programs and campaigns aimed at turning foreigners into Americans.
It was a nationwide organized in the 1910s to bring millions of recent immigrants into the American cultural system.It continued in the 20th century. -
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Urbanization
An increasing proportion of people living in towns and cities.
This was largely due to the Industrial Revolution in the United States in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and the rapid industrialization which the United States experienced as a result. -
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Naval Station
It was a base that was in WW2 including new runways for aircrafts.