Westward Expansion

Put the following events in order:

• Growth of Meatpacking Industry

• Invention of Barbed Wire

• Cattle Drives

• Increased Demand for Beef

• End of the Cattle Drive

Match the following vocabulary terms with the appropriate image

• Westward Expansion

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• Dawes Act

• 
• Homestead Act

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• Assimilation

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• Nativism

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Match the following

• Potato Famine

• Chinese Immigrant Push Factor

• War, Political Instability

• Irish Immigrant Push Factor

• Jobs working on railroads

• Chinese Immigrant Pull Factor

• Chinese Exclusion Act, Anti-Catholic sentiment

• Irish Immigrant Pull Factor

• Better economic opportunities in cities

• Nativism

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