SSUSH12a Westward Expansion

Multiple Choice

From 1892 to 1940, Ellis Island was primarily used to: (DOK 2)

• Permanently hold immigrants

• House poor immigrants coming to America

• Process immigrants coming to America

• Jail suspected criminals

Poll

How are you feeling today?

• Excited

• Silly

• Cool

• Annoyed

• Angry

SSUSH12a Westward Expansion

​Activator/Prior Knowledge

​Transcontinental Railroad and the American West

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​How was immigrant labor used in the construction of the transcontinental railroad?

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Multiple Choice

One effect of building the transcontinental railroad was to: (DOK 1)

• Make more land for Native Americans in the west

• Attract more Latin Americans to the West

• Make land available for cotton plantations in the west

• Attract more migrants to the west

Multiple Choice

How were the lives of many Chinese immigrants affected by the transcontinental railroad? (DOK 2)

• They were given jobs to plan the transcontinental railroad, but they were underpaid

• They were employed to build the railroad tracks, but they also suffered from discrimination

• They used factories to manufacture railroad tracks and ties, and they became economically and politically powerful

• They used the transcontinental railroad to travel west to search for gold, but they had to leave their families behind

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