Migration Vocabulary (1-8 only)

a law where the government gave free land to people that would stay and farm on it for 5 years.

• Homestead Act

• Reservation

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Migrate

to move

• Homestead Act

• Migrate

• Exodusters

• Reservations

the dream of moving West

• migrate

• The Great Migration

• Manifest Destiny

• reservations

Native American land

• Migrate

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Reservation

• Exodusters

African Americans who moved from the South to Kansas

• Exodusters

• immigration

• reservations

• Manifest Destiny

move to a new country is called....

• Exodusters

• transcontinental railroad

• immigration

• Homestead Act

the event of 6 million people moving West

• The Great Migration

• transcontinental railroad

• Exodusters

• reservation

the railroad that helped Americans move East to West.

• reservations

• Transcontinental Railroad

• immigration

• Exodusters

What groups moved West during the 1800's?

• African Americans

• People who wanted cheap land

• Exodusters

• All are true

What new invention helped people to move West?

• Transcontinental Railroad

• horse and buggy

• airplanes

• subways