Moving West/
The mountain range that early American settlers viewed as an obstacle...
What are the Appalachian Mts?
The act that encourage settlers to move to the middle part of the United States.
What is the Homestead Act?
The name for the railroad that connected the United States from Atlantic to Pacific....
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
To change your beliefs/culture to fit in with the larger group...
What is assimilation?
A person who takes personal risk in order to move some greenbacks....
What is an entrepreneur?
The main reason many early settlers in the 1700s and early 1800s decided to take the risk and move west....
What is "seeking farmland"?
How long you had to live on the land before it was officially yours....
What is five years?
This immigrant group from Asia caused quite a stir when it worked for lower pay....
Who are the Chinese?
This act attempted to get Native Americans to change their ways in exchange for land....
What is the Dawes Act?
1900: Standard Oil (Rockefeller)
2000s: Microsoft
What is a monopoly?
The term for the six states of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The earliest European settlers lived here.
What is New England?
The largest size of land a person/family could receive was this many acres....
What is 160 acres?
Infamously known for their drinking and good timing ways, this group mainly worked on the eastern portion of the railroad?
Who are the Irish?
This act banned the Chinese from immigrating to America for ten years starting in 1882....
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Starting in the late 1800s, this was introduced in many cities (subways, cable cars, buses)...allowing people to work in areas away from their homes...
What is public transportation?
Freedom from government control....Early settlers also looked for this
What is independence?
What are the Great Plains?
This city in Nebraska was the starting point for the eastern side of the railroad....Oh-my!
What is Omaha?
This event was a sad one and caused many to cry. The president ordered Native Americans to move west in the 1830s during this tragic event..
What is the Trail of Tears?
People moved to these areas, also known as cities, in search of work in the Gilded Age. Opposite of rural.
What are urban areas?
In the west side of this city, The Fresh Prince was born and raised. Also the site of the writing of the Declaration of Independence.
What is Philadelphia?
This agricultural product was the first thing the Native Americans showed the Pilgrims in Massachusetts how to grow....
What is corn?
This state is the site of where the easter and western lines met. Too bad the golden spike isn't there anymore....
What is Utah?
This term was given to African-Americans that left the South (Mainly Mississippi) to head to Kansas. They are named for a book in the Bible.
What are Exodusters?
Not Superman....The man of steel in the Gilded Age.