Age of Migration Unit 2026

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Across
  1. 4. lawthat allowed a settler to acquire as much as 160 acres of land by living on it for 5 years, improving it, and paying a small fee of about $30
  2. 6. law that limited the number of immigrants who could enter the US from certain countries;
  3. 7. cramped quarters on the lower decks of the ships where immigrants traveled to the US (cheap)
  4. 9. law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers
  5. 14. a run-down, overcrowded apartment building
  6. 15. against immigration
  7. 16. to move from one place to another
  8. 19. people moving to cities
  9. 20. Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it linked the eastern railroad system with California's railroad system, revolutionizing transportation in the west
  10. 21. Immigration processing center that open in New York City, immigrants from European countries were processed
Down
  1. 1. African Americans who migrated from the South to the West after the Civil War
  2. 2. form of protection which allows people to remain in the US instead of being deported (refugees)
  3. 3. a factor that causes people to leave their homelands and migrate to another region-bad things
  4. 5. to leave your home country
  5. 8. Positive conditions and perceptions that effectively attract people to new locales from other areas--good things
  6. 10. blending in with the dominant culture (verb is to assimilate)
  7. 11. land set aside by the United States government for Native Americans, lands are small and poor quality
  8. 12. A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.
  9. 13. area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background ex) Chinatown, Little Italy
  10. 17. immigration station in San Francisco Bay where immigrants from Asian countries were processed
  11. 18. to move into a new country