Erasing Identities
Coming to America
Work, Work, Work
A nation on the move
Making America Great Initially
100
This law divided tribal land into individual plots.
What is the Dawes Act?
100
The majority of immigrants passed through this East Coast processing station.
What is Ellis Island?
100
These organizations fought for better wages, hours, and working conditions.
What are Labor Unions
100
Despite being critical to its construction, Chinese workers were excluded from the celebration of the completion of this railway in 1869.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
100
This act promised 160 acres of land to qualified Americans
What is the Homestead Act?
200
Native American children were sent to these schools to assimilate into white culture.
What are boarding schools?
200
Immigrants from this country were barred by a U.S. exclusion act in 1882.
What is China?
200
These were the crowded, dangerous workplaces common in the Progressive Era.
What are sweatshops?
200
What does this represent?
What is the Golden Spike, celebrating the end of the Transcontinental Railroad.
200
To live on the land, you had to improve it for?
What is five years?
300
This motto summarized the assimilation policies of Captain Richard Pratt
What is "Kill the Indian, Save the Man"?
300
Immigrants from Asia passed through this West Coast processing station.
What is Angel Island
300
Children often worked in canneries, even when they were too small to sit up, sometimes kept here while their parents worked.
What is a box?
300
This ethnic group was originally the one who started work on the Transcontinental railroad, but were later replaced.
Who were the Irish
300
If you fought for this group, no land for you!
What is the Confederacy?
400
Students at this Pennsylvania school were taught industrial skills.
What is the Carlisle Indian School
400
What two factors effect Immigration and Emigration, respectively?
What are "Push and Pull Factors"
400
One mother described the working conditions for her family in the canneries as being similar to this oppressive institution.
What is Slavery
400
Who developed air brakes for trains?
George Westinghouse
400
Land available via the homestead act was in many cases taken from Native Americans under which act?
The Dawes Act
500
This act encouraged white settlement on Native American lands.
What is the Homestead Act?
500
Where would one find this posted?
Where is the Statue of Liberty
500
This famous photographer exposed child labor conditions in Baltimore through his images, and was one of our Primary Sources.
Who is Lewis W. Hine?
500
When did the standardization of track gauges occur?
When is 1886?
500
The Homestead Act was initiated in which year?
When is 1862