Migration and Immigration
What was the 2,000-mile trail that stretched from Missouri to Oregon?
Name given to people who willingly moved to California in search of gold.
49rs
How many original English colonies were there?
13
Name one thing that could cause a person problems as they travelled the Oregon Trail.
Disease, weather, floods, river crossing, Native attacks, robbery, fire, animals...
What did early settlers on the Oregon Trail travel in?
Wagon Trains
What term means the United States was destined by God to expand West?
Manifest Destiny
Name given to white, Protestant, English-speaking Americans who thought they "native" to the US.
Nativists
Escaping discrimination, where did the Mormons settle?
What did the Homestead Act give away?
Land
What invention made it comfortable (temperature-wise) for people to move to the American South/Southwest?
Air Conditioning
Voluntary or Forced Movement: African Americans moving West or North after the Civil War to escape discrimination?
Voluntary
What term means the largescale movement of African Americans out of the South to the North (1900s)?
The Great Migration
The annexation of this state would lead to the Mexican-American War.
Texas
What is the main idea of this quote:
"The whole continent of North America appears to be destined by Divine Providence to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs." --To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 31 August 1811
Manifest Destiny/The US was given the right to expand from coast to coast by God.
This invention had its first flight in Kitty Hawk, NC with 2 brothers and now transports ~2.9 million Americans each day.
Airplane
Which US state had an influx of migrants and immigrants looking to *strike* it rich?
California
What name is given to the American Southwest due to it's abundance of good weather?
Sun Belt
Which 2 US territories became states in 1959?
Alaska and Hawaii
What is a common push factor that motivates people to leave their home country?
Think: "____, hoo, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing."
War
After cars became a staple of American life, President Eisenhower used the government to build this system across the US with numbers like 40 and 85.
Interstate Highway System
SEE IMAGE
What is the POV of this political cartoon's author?
The cartoonist would say that even though the United States is a land of immigrants there are always people who desire a restriction on new immigration.
Often referred to as the "model minority," this group is expected to be the largest immigrant group to the US by 2055.
Asian Immigrants
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo added what territory to the US?
California; Mexican Cession
What is a common pull factor for people to move to a new area?
Think: "CREAM: ___ Rules Everything Around Me"
Money/Jobs
Green bubbles or Blue bubbles? This common question lets people know which brand of this technology you have.
Smartphone