A History of Internal Migration in America (1776โ2000)
Question 1
Expansion of the cotton industry
Desire for land and economic opportunities in the Northwest Territory
Discovery of gold in the region
Construction of the transcontinental railroad
Question 2
The completion of the Erie Canal
The signing of the Treaty of Ghent
The purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France
The Homestead Act of 1862
Question 3
The invention of the cotton gin
The construction of the Erie Canal
The California Gold Rush
The outbreak of the Civil War
Question 4
Gold prospectors
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons)
The Amish community
The Exodusters
Question 5
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Louisiana Purchase
The Dawes Act
The Indian Removal Act of 1830
Question 6
The establishment of the Oregon Trail
The founding of the Mormon Church
The invention of the telegraph
America's victory in the Mexican-American War
Question 7
The discovery of gold in California
The annexation of Texas
The repeal of the Missouri Compromise
The passage of the Pacific Railway Act
Question 8
Encouraging industrialization in the Northeast
Funding the construction of the Panama Canal
Providing free land to settlers in the West
Establishing reservations for Native American tribes
Question 9
It caused a decrease in urbanization
It initiated the Great Depression
It led to the decline of the cattle industry
It made travel and transportation to the West faster and easier
Question 10
The expansion of the Oregon Trail
The establishment of the Underground Railroad
Transformation of northern cities and contributions to the civil rights movement
The decline of the plantation economy in the South
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