Grade 2 | HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES
WEEK 16 • PRACTICE WORKBOOK • DAYS 76–80
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Day 76: Choosing to Move and Being Forced to Move
Four moves
| Example | Did the people choose? |
|---|---|
| A grandmother moves to live near her grandchildren | ____ |
| A government orders a whole people to leave their homeland | ____ |
| A young man moves to a city to go to college | ____ |
| People are captured and carried to another land | ____ |
- Which two examples in the table are voluntary migration?
Answer: _________________________________________________
- Write one reason that might push people to leave a place and one reason that might pull them to a new place.
Answer: _________________________________________________
- Explain the difference between voluntary migration and forced migration.
Answer: _________________________________________________
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Day 77: Arriving in the United States
Two ways people arrived
| Group | How they came | Voluntary or forced? |
|---|---|---|
| Immigrants through Ellis Island, 1892 to 1954 | By ship, choosing a new home | ____ |
| Africans brought to Virginia, 1619, and after | By ship, captured and taken from their homes | ____ |
- About how many immigrants came through Ellis Island? Did most of them choose to come?
Answer: _________________________________________________
- Did the Africans brought to Virginia in 1619 choose to come? Write voluntary or forced, and tell how you know.
Answer: _________________________________________________
- Compare an immigrant arriving at Ellis Island with an African brought to Virginia. Explain which was voluntary migration and which was forced migration, and why.
Answer: _________________________________________________
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Day 78: Moving Within the United States
Two migrations within the United States
| Migration | When | Who moved | Voluntary or forced? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trail of Tears | 1830s | Muscogee (Creek) and Cherokee peoples | ____ |
| Great Migration | About 1910 to 1970 | About six million Black Americans | ____ |
- Which migration in the table was voluntary?
Answer: _________________________________________________
- Give one reason people chose to move in the Great Migration.
Answer: _________________________________________________
- Explain why the Trail of Tears was forced migration but the Great Migration was voluntary migration.
Answer: _________________________________________________
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Day 79: A Family or Community Move
A sample interview (written for this lesson)
Grandpa Leon told me that in 1958 he moved from Selma, Alabama, to Detroit, Michigan. He said he chose to move because a car factory there was hiring and paid more than he could earn at home. His brother had already moved to Detroit, so he had family there.
- In the sample interview, where did Grandpa Leon move from, and where did he move to?
Answer: _________________________________________________
- Was Grandpa Leon’s move voluntary or forced? Give the reason from the interview.
Answer: _________________________________________________
- Explain how the reasons for the move in your interview are like or different from Grandpa Leon’s reasons.
Answer: _________________________________________________
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Hands-on task: Interview someone about a move
- Ask a family member or neighbor about a time they or their family moved.
- Ask: Where did you move from? Where did you move to? When? Why?
- Ask: Did you choose to move?
- Write the answers in the table below.
- Draw a simple map in the box with an arrow from the old place to the new place.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who I interviewed | __________ |
| Moved from | __________ |
| Moved to | __________ |
| When | __________ |
| Why | __________ |
| Did they choose to move? | __________ |
Was the move voluntary or forced, and how do I know?
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Day 80: Independent Check: Migration
Four migrations
| Migration | What happened |
|---|---|
| Ellis Island, 1892 to 1954 | Immigrants chose to come for work, freedom or family |
| Africans brought to Virginia, from 1619 | People were captured and brought by force to be enslaved |
| Trail of Tears, 1830s | The Muscogee and Cherokee peoples were made to leave their homelands |
| Great Migration, about 1910 to 1970 | Black Americans chose to leave the South for better jobs and fairer treatment |
Answer on your own. An adult may read the questions aloud but should not give the answers.
- Which two migrations in the table were forced?
Answer: _________________________________________________
- Name one reason people chose to move in the Great Migration.
Answer: _________________________________________________
- Choose one forced migration and one voluntary migration from the table. Explain how they are different.
Answer: _________________________________________________
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