The movement of people or animals from one place to another is known as...
What is Migration
This was the main food crop that failed during the Great Famine, leading to starvation ?
What is potato?
The 1849 event in California was a major "pull factor" for Chinese immigrants
What is the California Gold Rush
The 1830s forced migration of Cherokee and other tribes from the Southeast to Oklahoma is known as this...
What is Trail of Tears?
True or False....Africa is a country
What is False?
What type of migration did slaves coming from Africa to the New World experience?
What is involuntary or forced migration
This is the major event in Ireland (1845-1852) caused mass emigration to the United States ?
What is The Great Famine (or Potato Famine) .
The majority of Chinese immigrants settled on thisU.S. coast during the 1800s.
What is the West Coast
This Trail of Tears was a result of this 1830 U.S. law
What is the Indian Removal Act?
True or False: The 1800s saw large-scale voluntary immigration from Africa.
What is false. It was involuntary and forced.
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
Anti-Irish sentiment in the 1800s was often based on their poverty and this common religion?
What is Catholicism.
Chinese laborers were essential for building this major U.S. infrastructure project in the 1860s?
What is The Transcontinental Railroad
This Colonisl region was most affected by the Trail of Tears.
What is the Southeast?
This country was the first to enslave Africans during the Triangle Trade
What is Portugal?
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
How many Irish had to become Indentured Servants when they immigrated?
What is 300,000.
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?
The main reason for the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
Land
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.
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
The Great Famine is an example of this kind of factor for migration
What is Push factor
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 also barred Chinese immigrants from becoming this
What is U.S. citizens.
The five large tribes forcibly removed on the Trail of Tears were the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and...?
What is the Seminole?
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)?