Ellis island
Angel island
Iowa immigration
Citizenship
100

What ocean is this island coasted on?

The Atlantic Ocean.
100

What ocean is this island coasted on?

The Pacific Ocean.

100

The movement that carried settlers further west in the 1800s caused people to settle in Iowa.

Westward expansion (cameo to the old units)

100

Many settlers moved to Iowa in the mid-1800s because the land was ideal for this type of economic activity.

Farming.

200

How fast are the medical exams

These exams lasted six seconds because of the number of people coming through.

200

How many poems are on the wall?

approximately 200 moems are written on the walls of Angel Island.

200

This major 19th-century U.S. law offered cheap land and encouraged thousands to move west, including to Iowa.

The Homestead Act.

200

This major 19th-century U.S. law offered cheap land and encouraged thousands to move west, including to Iowa.

Homestead act

300

Large numbers of these people, especially Germans and Scandinavians, moved to Iowa in the 1800s, drawn by farmland and communities.

European immigrants

400

The construction of these transportation routes in the 1850s and beyond made it easier for people to settle in Iowa.

Railroads

500

In the 1840s, this religious group settled temporarily in Iowa towns like Nauvoo and Council Bluffs while migrating west.

The mormons