Westward Migration
During the period of westward expansion, what was the idea that the United States was destined by GOD to spread across the entire North American continent called?
Manifest Destiny
What was the name of African Americans that migrated West from the South called?
Exodusters
This happens when minority groups are forced to adapt to the dominant culture
Assimilation
What is a push factor?
A reason someone leaves their home
Which city served as the most important railroad hub connecting the East to the West?
Chicago
What was the name of the mode of transportation that was created, which made traveling and transporting goods across the United States easier?
Transcontinental Railroad
What economic opportunity drew most migrants to the West?
access to land for agriculture
What act divided Native American tribal lands into 160-acre plots and only gave land to Natives that accepted this peacefully and agreed to become American citizens?
Dawes Act
What is a pull factor?
A reason someone arrives in a new location/home
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, what was the most important aspect of the southern economy?
Agriculture
How was the Transcontinental Railroad funded?
Where did American cowboys get most of their practices and objects from?
Mexicans
Why was America interested in making treaties with Native American tribes?
They wanted their land
By 1890, in most large northern cities, immigrants and their children amounted to what percent of the population?
60%
Urbanisation is the movement from a ________ area to a _____________ area
rural, urban
At the time of westward expansion, what was the most important aspect of the southern economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
Agriculture
What was the name of Mexico's native cowboys?
Vaqueros
What did modern-day (in the time period) cowboys take from Native Americans?
Their culture, style
What is the name of the social clusters that new immigrants formed as a way to cope with their arrival to America?
Ethnic clusters
What issue arose in major cities as a result of the growth of industries in the north?
Overcrowding
How many acres did the Homestead Act give to migrants? AND How many years did they have to maintain that land?
160; 5
What 4 people groups were included in the movement West?
White European settlers, Mexican Americans/Immigrants, Black Americans (Exodusters, Chinese Americans/Immigrants
What is the name of schools where Native American children were placed to live during the school year, away from home called?
Boarding schools
What were at least 3 major differences that differed in new immigrants than old immigrants? (Be specific)
Came from Southern/Eastern Europe & Asia
Catholic, Jewish
Settled in cities, and worked in factories
Did not speak English
looked less "American" (darker skin)
What was a result of not having proper sanitation and sewage in cities during the 19th-20th centuries?
Disease/sickness rose
Death toll rose