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Westward Movement and Immigration

Westward Movement and Immigration. 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. What was the job of late 19th century cowboys?. Cattle drives.

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Westward Movement and Immigration

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  1. Westward Movement and Immigration

  2. What was the 1862 Homestead Act? • Law that gave freepublicland 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

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