SOL Review Part 1
U.S. Geography Westward Expansion ReconstructionImmigration
Region 2 What is the Rocky Mountain Region?
This act granted settlers 160 acres of land to those willing to farm on the Great Plains What is the Homestead Act?
Banned slavery What is the 13 th amendment?
Between 1880 and 1920, what parts 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 were new __________ 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 in 1869 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 land Low rainfall Dust 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 immigrants who were banned from coming into the United States. Who are the Chinese?
In what region were Jim Crow laws used? What is the Southeast Region?
Battle where Sitting Bull and the Sioux 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?