Westward Movement and Immigration

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Westward Movement and Immigration
2
What was the 1862 Homestead Act?

• Law that gave free public land to settlers in the
  western territories
• Settlers promised to live on and farm this land
  for five years

3
What was the job of late 19th century cowboys?

• Cattle drives

4
What three cities in the Midwest became centers
of the meatpacking industry?

• Kansas City
• Omaha
• Chicago

5
What regions of the U.S. were settled during the
late 19th century?

• The Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains

6
What 2 new technologies in the late 19th century
opened new Western lands?

• Railroads
• Mechanical Reaper

7
What crop did the mechanical reaper harvest?

• Wheat

8
When was the Old Immigration?

• Before 1880

9
From what region of the world did immigrants come
during the Old Immigration?

• Northern and Western Europe

10
From what countries did the immigrants come
during the Old Immigration?

• Great Britain
• Ireland
• Germany
• Scandinavia (Norway Sweden)

11
When was the New Immigration?

• 1880-World War I

12
From what region of the world did the New
Immigrants come?

• Eastern and Southern Europe

13
From what countries did the immigrants come
during the New Immigration?

• Russia
• Italy
• Poland

14
What did Chinese immigrants help build?

• Transcontinental railroad

15
What two laws limited immigration to the U.S.?

• Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
• Immigration Restriction Act of 1921