Go West!
This 1862 law offered western land to settlers who lived on and improved it.
What is the Homestead Act?
Completed in 1869, this transportation system connected the eastern and western United States.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
This group of African Americans moved west after Reconstruction in search of land, safety, and independence.
Who were the Exodusters?
Land designated by the federal government for Native peoples, often after removal from traditional territory, was called this.
What is a reservation?
A condition that causes a person to consider leaving their home country is called this.
What is a push factor?
The rapid growth of cities is known as this.
What is urbanization?
This social media app is known for short videos, trending dances, sounds, and challenges.
What is TikTok?
Besides obtaining land, identify one economic reason people moved west.
What are jobs in farming, mining, ranching, construction, or railroad work?
This material was used to construct stronger rails, bridges, machinery, factories, and skyscrapers.
What is steel?
This immigrant group provided much of the labor for the western portion of the transcontinental railroad.
Who were Chinese immigrants?
The authority of a nation to govern itself and control its territory is known by this term.
What is sovereignty?
Jobs, available land, higher wages, and religious freedom are examples of this type of immigration factor.
What are pull factors?
These crowded and poorly maintained apartment buildings housed many working-class and immigrant families.
What are tenements?
In Inside Out 2, this orange emotion arrives in Riley’s mind and frequently takes control.
Who is Anxiety?
Settlers had to complete these this major requirements to gain ownership of Homestead Act land.
What are living on the land and/or improving or farming it for the required period?
This process made steel faster and less expensive to produce.
What is the Bessemer process?
This immigrant group provided significant labor for the eastern portion of the transcontinental railroad and came to the US to escape the potato famine.
Who were Irish immigrants?
The destruction of this animal harmed the food supply, economy, and culture of many Plains nations.
What is the buffalo or bison?
Most European immigrants entered through this processing center in New York Harbor.
What is Ellis Island?
Name two problems caused by rapid urban growth.
What are overcrowding, poor sanitation, disease, pollution, fires, crime, or inadequate housing?
In the Harry Potter series, this is the name of the prison guarded by Dementors.
What is Azkaban?
Identify one opportunity and one challenge experienced by western farmers or homesteaders.
What are the opportunity to own land and the challenge of drought, debt, isolation, harsh weather, or crop failure?
Explain one way the railroad contributed to western settlement and one way it contributed to industrial growth.
What is it transported settlers west and carried raw materials and manufactured goods between farms, mines, factories, and markets?
Identify one important difference between homesteaders and immigrant railroad workers.
What is homesteaders hoped to obtain and farm land, while railroad workers earned wages building transportation networks?
At this 1876 battle, Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors defeated forces led by George Armstrong Custer.
What is the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
Many immigrants from Asia entered through this immigration station in San Francisco Bay.
What is Angel Island?
These investigative journalists exposed corruption, unsafe workplaces, child labor, and unhealthy urban conditions.
Who were muckrakers?
What rapper has won a Pulitzer Prize?
Who is Kendrick Lamar
Explain why the federal government’s western land policies created opportunity for settlers but conflict with Native nations.
What is the government offered settlers land that Native nations already occupied, used, or claimed, contributing to removal and conflict?
Complete this causal chain: inexpensive steel → more railroads → __________ → increased western settlement and industrial growth.
What is faster and less expensive transportation of people, resources, and goods?
Explain why the West did not provide equal opportunities to all groups who moved there.
What is race, national origin, citizenship, wealth, discrimination, and government policy affected access to land, employment, wages, safety, and legal rights?
Identify one political and one economic effect of Westward Expansion on Native nations.
What are reduced sovereignty or federal control politically and loss of land, resources, buffalo, trade, or economic independence economically?
Explain how industrialization was both a cause and a consequence of increased immigration.
What is industrial growth attracted immigrants by creating jobs, while immigrant labor allowed factories, mines, railroads, and cities to expand?
Complete this cause-and-effect chain: industrialization → immigration and urbanization → crowded housing and unsafe workplaces → __________.
What is public pressure for labor laws, housing regulations, sanitation improvements, and other reforms?
Name all six original members of the Avengers who fought in the Battle of New York in the 2012 film The Avengers.
Who are Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow, and Hawkeye?