Westward Expansion

Put the following events in order:

• Cattle Drives

• Invention of Barbed Wire

• End of the Cattle Drive

• Growth of Meatpacking Industry

• Increased Demand for Beef

Match the following vocabulary terms with the appropriate image

• Homestead Act

• 
• Assimilation

• 
• Nativism

• 
• Dawes Act

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• Westward Expansion

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Match the following

• War, Political Instability

• Chinese Immigrant Push Factor

• Jobs working on railroads

• Nativism

• Better economic opportunities in cities

• Chinese Immigrant Pull Factor

• Chinese Exclusion Act, Anti-Catholic sentiment

• Irish Immigrant Pull Factor

• Potato Famine

• Irish Immigrant Push Factor

This innovation helped link the country's natural resources from the west with the factories on the east.

Many Nativists opposed Chinese Immigration because they felt like they were losing ____ to immigrants

Which of the following was intended to assimilate Native Americans?

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

Which of the following offered free land in the West to encourage settlement?

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

Which of the following was passed due to nativism and concerns over job competition?

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

Which of the following is responsible for the end of the cattle drives?

• Dawes Act

• Buffalo

• Barbed Wire

• Immigration

Immigrants from Asian countries like China were processed here:

• Ellis Island

• Coney Island

• Angel Island

• Staten Island