Westward Expansion
The term used to describe the right of Americans to look to expand and grow the United States beyond its borders in the middle of the 1800s
What is Manifest Destiny
The Great Migration witnessed the movement of these Americans from the south to the north, west, or east.
Who are African Americans?
This religious war against Islam took Europeans all the way to the Middle East but failed to accomplish its end goal.
What were the Crusades?
Most immigrants coming to America chose to live in these locations due to their immense resources and proximity to work.
What are large cities/urban centers?
This was the immigrant processing facility that processed millions of immigrants as they came into the U.S. through New York City.
What was Ellis Island?
Prior to the U.S. Civil War, this group of people mostly inhabited the western half of America.
Who are Native Americans?
This world war impacted the Great Migration.
What was World War I?
They are the leader of the Catholic Church.
Who is the Pope?
This is the term used in describing a reason why an immigrant wanted to come to the U.S.
What is pull factor?
The Red Scare of 1919 had people afraid that immigrants from Eastern Europe were bringing this political ideology into the United States.
What is Communism?
The name of the railroad that connected the east and west coasts of the United States in the late 1860s.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
These discriminatory laws were found throughout the South in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
What were Jim Crow laws?
This European movement that included a change in thought and aroused the curiosity of the average man.
What was the Enlightenment?
This event in the mid to late 1840s in Ireland caused thousands of deaths and forced thousands more to flee the country.
What was the Irish Potato Famine?
This was the eye condition that medical clerks would check immigrants for as they entered the U.S.
What is trachoma?
The name of the bill from 1862 that provided for 160 acres of land to individuals who agreed to develop, settle, and work the land for a period of 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This was a common complaint and push factor regarding why people left the South during the Great Migration.
What was low wages?
This invention allowed the written word to be widely distributed, allowing people from all over the world a chance to hear stories about far away lands.
What is the printing press?
This was the result of overcrowded apartments and city streets due to immigrants flocking to the cities.
What is poor living conditions?
This piece of legislation was passed in the early 1920s to limit the number of immigrants coming into the United States.
What was the Immigration Act of 1924?
John L. O'Sullivan coined the term "Manifest Destiny" in this year.
What is 1845?
They wrote the poem One Way Ticket.
Who is Langston Hughes?
This directional tool allowed for easier navigation as European exploration boomed.
What is the compass?
Beginning in the early 1890s, more immigrants came from these parts of Europe.
What are Eastern and Southern Europe?
Based on a class assignment, Representative Parrish, from this state, argued on the House floor that the U.S. should shut down immigration in 1921 until the process can be fixed.
What is Texas?