Change
Western
Movement
Immigration
Cities
Major Changes in America following the Civil War
1877-1914
Developments
Effects
-Era of the American Cowboy bring cattle -Closing of the western frontier
to market
-Conflicts with American Indians
-Homestead Act offered free land to
-Great Plains becomes a prosperous
anyone willing to settle out west
agricultural area
-New technologies, like the railroad speed -Admission of new states west of
up settlement
the Rock Mountains
-More immigrants come from South and
-Growing resentment toward
East Europe, Japan and China
immigrants—belief they took
-Immigrants provide valuable labor source valuable jobs
(i.e. Chinese workers on Railroads
-Immigration Laws restricting
Immigrants attempt to adapt to American
immigration (Chinese Exclusion
culture
Act)
-Northern and Midwestern cities emerge
-Overcrowded conditions
as transportation and manufacturing cities -Slums
-Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cleveland
-New transportation systems-New
-Site of many jobs
York Subway
Questions:
1. The title of this chart is________________________________ during the years 1877
to________________________
2. During the western movement the era of American __________________________ to
help bring cattle to market
3. New technologies like the_________________________increased settlement
4. Admission of new states occurred ______________________of the Rock Mountains
5. New immigrants were coming from ______________________,China and Japan
6. Chinese workers help to build_________________________
7. Immigrants were resented because they took______________________
8. An example of a law restricting immigration was the_________________________
9. Northern and Midwestern cities became centers of_________________________
10. Growth of cities led to __________________________conditions