Defining Migration
What is migration?
The movement of groups and people to another country, area, towns, cities.
This purchase made by Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the United States, the purchase included the land west of the Mississippi River, stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada and the Rocky Mountains, and encompassed what is now 15 states.
Louisiana Purchase
This trail was used by pioneers when heading west and took on average 4-6 months to reach their final destination?
Oregon Trail
The first Immigrants to the 13 colonies either came by choice or were forced to migrate here. Which of the following apply to push factors?
Religious persecution
Economic Hardship in home country
Freedoms & Rights
Fresh Start
War in their home country
Land
Religious persecution
Economic Hardship in home country
War in their home country
Why were Native Americans moved by the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
To open their lands for white settlement and agriculture
What is voluntary migration?
Willing to move on your own choice
Idea that God wanted us to move west and to spread over the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific?
Manifest Destiny
List geographically & environmental barriers that migrants encountered on their journey out west.
mountains, rivers and deserts, as well as extreme weather conditions like snowstorms, droughts, and floods.
The first Immigrants to the 13 colonies either came by choice or were forced to migrate here. Check all that apply to pull factors.
War in their home country
Land
Freedoms & Rights
Religious Freedoms
Economic Hardship
Fresh Start
Land
Freedom & Rights
Religious Freedoms
Fresh Start
What was the Trail of Tears
forced removal of thousands of Native Americans, primarily the Cherokee, from their ancestral lands in the southeastern United States to Indian territory (Oklahoma)
What is forced migration
Where Governments & People force you to move against your own will
Santa Anna: general and president of Mexico ordered all illegal immigrants to leave. Why?
Many Texans were Protestant and slave owners.
In 1849, thousands of immigrants and US citizens will pour into California to search for?
What were they called?
Gold
49ers
The 1870s -WWI seen an influx of immigrants from what part of the world?
Eastern/Southern Europe
A sea route connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas involving goods, enslaved people, and raw materials
Triangle Trade
What are pull factors?
Give Examples:
Reasons that pull people to migrate, gives them reasons to move.
EX: better opportunities, better jobs, better living, more money, freedoms & rights, better standard living such as education, environment, cheaper cost of living.
As the US moved westward into places like Texas, which was owned by Mexico after declaring its independence from Spain. Mexico offered land grants to Americans, but they had to follow Mexico's rules and laws if they were to come and settle the land. What were the rules/laws set by the Mexican government that migrants had to follow or were suppose to follow?
No Slaves
had to convert to Catholicism
become a Mexican citizen
What groups of immigrants were mainly hired to work on the construction of the transcontinental railroad?
African Americans who moved out west? Were called?
Chinese & Irish immigrants
Exodusters
What was the primary purpose of Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954?
What was the primary function of Angel Island in the early 20th century?
An immigration processing center
An immigration processing center, mainly for Asian immigrants
Middle Passage?
The leg of the Triangle Trade that transported enslaved Africans to the Americas.
What are push factors?
Give Examples of push factors?
Reasons that push people to migrate, they have to leave for reasons out of their control.
EX: Having not enough space, Famine, food crisis, forced starvation, War, Violence, Religious persecutions
1. Manifest Destiny
2. Land/natural resources
3. Expand slavery
Homestead Act of 1862?
Encouraged Americans to move out west at the promise of free land of 160 acres as long as they lived on the land and maintained it.
An immigrant coming to America had to go through processing. What all did they have to pass?
A clean bill of health / medical inspection
Proof of money or means to support themselves
No criminal record
Correct paperwork and identification
Dawes Act of 1887
Split up Native American tribal lands in the west into induvial plots of land. purpose was to promote assimilation by encouraging Native Americans to become individual farmers and landowners, similar to white settlers.