Push or Pull?
A severe potato blight ruins crops across Ireland, causing widespread starvation and poverty.
What is a push factor?
Movement where people make a personal choice to relocate in search of better opportunities.
What is voluntary migration?
The First Transcontinental Railroad connected the East Coast to the West Coast, reducing travel time across the U.S. from six months to how long?
What is 6 days?
The 1830 law signed by President Andrew Jackson that authorized the U.S. government to force Native American tribes off their eastern lands.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Term that describes the growth of cities caused by people moving from rural farms to urban centers.
What is urbanization?
Advertisements in Europe promise cheap, fertile farmland and high factory wages in American cities.
What is a pull factor?
Movement where people are forced to leave their homes by military force or government orders.
What is forced migration?
Immigrant group that provided most of the dangerous labor for the Central Pacific Railroad by blasting through the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Who are Chinese immigrants?
Tragic event resulted in the deaths of over 4,000 Cherokee people due to cold, hunger, and disease during their forced winter march?
What is the Trail of Tears?
The main economic reason millions of immigrants settled in large northern cities rather than buying farm land.
What are factory job opportunities with steady weekly wages?
Violent attacks and religious persecution target Jewish families living in Russia.
What is a push factor?
German and Swedish farmers moving to Kansas and Oregon to buy cheap prairie land.
What is voluntary migration?
Major immigrant group that made up a large portion of the workforce building the Union Pacific line westward across the Great Plains.
Who are Irish immigrants?
The discovery of this valuable resource on Cherokee land in Georgia in 1828 increased white settlers' greed for native land.
What is gold?
Advertisements printed in China promising that "money is in great abundance" in America are examples of what category of pull factor?
What is an economic pull factor?
Gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill in California in 1848, sparking the 1849 Gold Rush.
What is a pull factor?
The forced relocation of 16,000 Cherokee people from Georgia to Indian Territory in 1838.
What is forced migration?
Major geographic obstacle railroad workers had to cut tunnels through using dynamite and hand drills.
What are the Sierra Nevada/Rocky Mountains?
The term for the 19th-century belief that the United States was meant to expand all the way across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Between 1830 and 1870, this happened to the percentage of Americans living in urban areas.
What is increased?
What is the main difference between a push factor and a pull factor?
"What is" a push factor is a negative condition that forces people to leave home, while a pull factor is a positive feature that attracts people to a new place.
Which category of migration drivers includes events like droughts, famines, crop failures, and extreme weather (social, cultural, environmental, political)?
What is environmental?
Name two economic pull factors that brought Irish and Chinese immigrants to work on the railroad in the mid-1800s.
What are job opportunities, steady wages, money to send back to starving families, etc.
Former U.S. soldier who wrote a letter describing the Trail of Tears as the execution of "the most brutal order in American history". Just his last name is fine.
Who is (John G.) Burnett?
How can the same event, Westward Expansion, be an economic pull factor for white homesteaders, but a forced migration for Native Americans?
"What is" white homesteaders moved voluntarily to gain cheap land and gold, while Native Americans were forcibly removed from that same land by military force.