Push and Pull Factors
This term describes factors like war or a lack of jobs that make people want to leave their home country.
Push Factor
This famous African American, Nicodemus, community in Graham County was advertised as "The Largest Colored Colony in America." Why was the false advertisement.
No one lived there yet.
This European group was the largest immigrant group to settle in Kansas.
Germans
Ernest de Boissiere started this settlement in Kansas to produce a fancy fabric using mulberry trees and worms. What was the name of the settlement.
Silkville
An extreme food shortage where many people do not have enough to eat
famine
This term describes factors like safety, comfort, and job opportunities that attract people to a new place
Pull Factor
This was the name given to the second wave of African Americans who came to Kansas, named after a story in the Bible.
Exodusters
This word describes people who believe violence is never right and refuse to fight in wars.
Pacifists
This settlement in Harper County failed because the young men preferred racing horses and partying over farming. Where were the young men from?
Great Britain
A person who occupies land or property that they do not own
squatter
Many immigrants chose Kansas because this state document outlawed slavery and exempted _________ from the military.
Pacifist
Because they often lacked money to buy land in the South, many Black families rented farms and paid with crops, a system that led to this financial problem. They were in what?
Debt
Germans from Russia were successful in Kansas because the Great Plains were very similar to this region in _____________.
Russia
This ethnic community in Kansas City was built by immigrants who worked in the meat-packing industry. They created their community on top of a hill. What was the name of the area?
Strawberry Hill
An amount produced
yield
When immigrants write letters home and convince their friends and family to move to the same area, it is called this.
Chain Migration
What name one of the two rivers did the Exodusters travel to Kansas on?
Mississippi or Missouri
Name one way the turnverein would help the community how?
Pay for funerals
Help with the orphanage
Help the sick and needy
Abraham Pratt and his sons were successful in western Kansas because they raised this animal for its wool.
Sheep
A mass migration of people, often of one religious or ethnic group
Exodus
This country's industrial age made cities too crowded and caused many people to seek open plains in Kansas. They were also successful sheep ranchers.
Great Britain/British/England
He was a former slave from Tennessee who became a "land speculator" and encouraged hundreds of Black families to move to Kansas.
Benjamin "Pap" Singleton
This Russian leader originally invited German farmers to Russia by offering them free land and religious freedom.
Catherine the Great
George Grant is credited with the idea of Kansas becoming a major producer of cattle. He raised cattle because he knew their was a growning demand from where?
Britain
To change from work done by humans or animals into work done by machines
Mechanize