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Chinese and Irish Immigrant Railroad Workers
Analyze the dangerous labor, engineering feats, and discriminatory treatment experienced by immigrant railroad builders.
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Settling the Frontier: Migration, Railroads, and Western Industries
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Examine the geographic challenges, transportation developments, and major industries such as farming, ranching, and mining that drove westward migration.
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SS.5.15West Virginia Social Studies Standards · All agesSummarize the significance of large-scale immigration and the contributions of immigrants to America in the early 1900s (e.g., the countries from which they came, the opportunities and resistance they faced when they arrived and the cultural and economic contributions they made to this nation, etc.).
SS.5.22West Virginia Social Studies Standards · All agesDemonstrate an understanding of the advances in transportation and its effect on Western Expansion. • Illustrate how railroads affected development of the West (e.g., ease of travel, influence on trade and impact on environment, etc.). • Compare and contrast conflicts between various groups in the West (e.g., miners, ranchers, cowboys, Native Americans, Mexican Americans, and European and Asian immigrants, etc.).