Westward Expansion
This belief that the United States was destined to expand westward across North America.
Manifest Destiny
The policy of forcibly assimilating Native Americans into American culture.
Assimilation
This term refers to the acquisition of competing companies in the same industry.
Horizontal Integration
This policy of extending a nation's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
Imperialism
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The journey of thousands of African Americans westward after the Civil War, seeking freedom and opportunity.
Exodusters
This act broke up tribal lands and allotted individual plots of land to Native Americans.
Dawes Act
This term describes a market in which a single seller dominates.
Monopoly
The sinking of this British passenger liner by a German U-boat helped to turn public opinion against Germany.
Lusitania
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This act granted 160 acres of land to settlers who agreed to live on and improve it for five years.
Homestead Act
The massacre of Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee in 1890.
Wounded Knee Massacre
This steel magnate used vertical integration to control the steel industry.
Andrew Carnegie
President Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy, emphasizing the use of military force to achieve U.S. goals.
Big Stick Diplomacy
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Never Broke Again
This invention revolutionized farming on the Great Plains, leading to the end of the open range.
Barbed Wire
This religious movement among Native Americans, which the U.S. government viewed as a threat.
Ghost Dance Movement
This oil tycoon used horizontal integration to create a near-monopoly.
John D. Rockefeller
This policy called for equal trading rights for all nations in China.
Open Door Policy
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This famous cattle trail stretched from Texas to Kansas, driving millions of cattle to northern markets.
Chisholm Trail
The battle that had a significant victory for Native Americans, but ultimately a temporary setback in their resistance to U.S. expansion.
The Battle of Little Bighorn
This business practice involves controlling all aspects of production, from raw materials to distribution.
Vertical Integration
Acronym for the causes of World War I.
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