Immigration
Someone who comes to live permanently in a country foreign to them.
What is an Immigrant?
A human-made waterway that connected bodies of water.
What is a Canal
This device, developed in 1837, was used to relay information across wires via a series of "dots and dashes."
What is the Telegraph?
This settlement was rich with goldmines. This brought many immigrants and settlers to this coastal settlement.
What is California?
It is a scarcity of food, or the opposite of a Feast.
What is a Famine?
Someone who leaves their country to live permanently in another.
What is an Emigrant.
This vessel grew in popularity in 1811, carrying sugar, people and cotton.
What is the Steam Boat?
These "pop up" instant cities protected migrants from wildlife and hostile Native American Tribes while traveling West.
This person created the first American settlement in Texas, where people flocked for opportunity.
Who is Stephen Austin?
This person is sent on a religious expedition to promote Christianity. Often in a community foreign to them.
This blight struck this Celtic countries population. Causing mass immigration in the nineteenth century.
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
It was 2000 miles long and connected the Eastern and Western coasts of the United States
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This encoded language consisted of "dots and dashes" and was an early form of telecommunication.
What is Morse Code?
This city in New Mexico was considered a Frontier highway
What is Sante Fe?
What is Manifest Destiny?
This group of people helped develop American infrastructure in the nineteenth century. They later faced strict immigration restrictions from the US in 1882.
Who are Chinese Immigrants?
These charged fares for passengers traveling through the growing network of roads in the mid-1800s
What are Tolls/ Tollgates/ Toll Booths
This artist turned inventor created a faster means of communication after failing to reach his wife before she passed away
Who is Samuel Morse?
What is Oregon?
These social activists wanted to get rid of slavery in the United States. This group found there home in the Republican party.
Who are abolitionists?
This European group immigrated because worsening farm ownership, religious persecution and military conscription.
Who are Germans?
Immigrants built this network which grew the United States socially, politically, economically and agriculturally
What is the Railroad?
This long body of water stretched between the eastern and western coasts of New York. It completed development in 1825.
What is the Eerie Canal?
Mexico declared independence from Spain in this nineteenth century year.
What is 1821?
Spain forbid this Spanish American community from any contact with the United States. They often faced conflicts with Native Americans.
What is New Mexico?