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Region 2

What is the Rocky Mountain Region?

This act granted settlers 160 acres of land to

those willingto farm on the Great Plains

What is the Homestead Act?

Banned slavery

What is the 13th amendment?

Between 1880 and 1920, whatparts of Europe did most immigrants come from?

What is southern and eastern Europe?

Region that includes Pennsylvania,Vermont, Maine, and

Rhode Island

What is the Northeast Region?

                                                                                          

Steel plows, barbed wires windmills, and railroads werenew __________ used in the

Great Plains.

What are technologies?

Believed that preserving (saving) the Union was more

Important than punishing the South.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

Jane Addams established what in Chicago to help immigrants?

What is Hull House?

Region that includes Texas, New Mexico and Arizona

What is the Southwest Region?

                                                                                          

Technology completed in1869 that linked the East and West coasts.

What is the Transcontinental Railroad?

Court case that declared “separate but equal”

legal

What is Plessy v. Ferguson?

Hope for new life, religious freedom, adventure and escape

from oppressive (bad) governments

What are Reasons for Immigration?

What region contains the meat-packing center during the early

1900’s?

What is the Midwest Region?

                                                                                          

Flat landLow rainfallDust storms

Land eroded by wind and water

What are characteristics of the Great Plains?

Program that helped former slaves (freedmen) start their

new lives

What is the Freedman’s Bureau?

First group of immigrantswho were banned from coming

into the United States.

Who are the Chinese?

In what region were Jim Crowlaws used?

What is the Southeast Region?

                                                                                          

Battle where Sitting Bull and theSioux defeated General Custer

What is the Battle of Little Bighorn ?

1877

What is the End of Reconstruction?

Tenements and ghettos, political corruption,and discrimination

What are Problems Faced by Immigrants?