Factors of Migration
Irish
Chinese
Indigenous
African
100

The movement of people or animals from one place to another is known as...

What is Migration

100

This was the main food crop that failed during the Great Famine, leading to starvation ?

What is potato?

100

The 1849 event in California was a major "pull factor" for Chinese immigrants

What is the California Gold Rush

100

The 1830s forced migration of Cherokee and other tribes from the Southeast to Oklahoma is known as this... 

What is Trail of Tears?

100

True or False....Africa is a country

What is False?

200

What type of migration did slaves coming from Africa to the New World experience?

What is involuntary or forced migration

200

This is the major event in Ireland (1845-1852) caused mass emigration to the United States ?

What is The Great Famine (or Potato Famine) .

200

The majority of Chinese immigrants settled on thisU.S. coast during the 1800s.

What is the West Coast

200

This Trail of Tears was a result of this 1830 U.S. law 

What is the Indian Removal Act?

200

True or False: The 1800s saw large-scale voluntary immigration from Africa.

What is false.  It was involuntary and forced.

300

What type of migration does the following statement represent? "We came to the New World so that we could finally make something of ourselves. We can now own land and build our own legacy."

What is voluntary migration

300

Anti-Irish sentiment in the 1800s was often based on their poverty and this common religion?

What is Catholicism.

300

Chinese laborers were essential for building this major U.S. infrastructure project in the 1860s?

What is The Transcontinental Railroad 

300

This Colonisl region was most affected by the Trail of Tears.

What is the Southeast?

300

This country was the first to enslave Africans during the Triangle Trade

What is Portugal?

400

What factor is being used in the following statement? "My dad moved us to North Carolina from Flint, Michigan because we did not have safe drinking water."

What is a push factor

400

How many Irish had to become Indentured Servants when they immigrated?

What is 300,000.

400

This 1882 law was the first to ban a specific national group (laborers) from immigrating to the U.S.

What is The Chinese Exclusion Act?

400

The main reason for the Indian Removal Act of 1830?

Land

400

This 1868 Constitutional Amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S., including formerly enslaved people?

What is The 14th Amendment. 

500

This was the 19th-century belief that the United States was meant to spread its culture and land across North America, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean  ? 

What is Manifest Destiny

500

The Great Famine is an example of this kind of factor for migration

What is Push factor

500

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 also barred Chinese immigrants from becoming this

What is U.S. citizens. 

500

The five large tribes forcibly removed on the Trail of Tears were the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and...? 

What is the Seminole?

500

This is the year that the U.S. federal law banning the importation of enslaved people from Africa took effect?

What is 1807 (Slave Trade Act)?

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