Grade 2 | HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES
WEEK 16 • STUDENT TEXTBOOK • DAYS 76–80
Read each lesson with a parent or teacher and study the worked example. Then answer the questions for that day in the Week 16 Practice Workbook.
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Day 76: Choosing to Move and Being Forced to Move
Migration means moving from one place to live in another. When people choose to move, it is called voluntary migration. Some reasons push people to leave, such as no jobs or unfair treatment. Other reasons pull people to a new place, such as work, freedom or family.
Sometimes people are forced to move. They are made to leave their homes, and they have no choice. This is called forced migration. To tell the two apart, ask: Did the people choose to go?
Worked example: A family moves to another city because a parent has a new job there. Is this voluntary or forced migration?
- Ask: Did the family choose to go?
- Yes, they chose to move for a job.
Worked answer: Voluntary migration.
Day 77: Arriving in the United States
From 1892 to 1954, more than 12 million immigrants came to the United States through Ellis Island in New York Harbor. Most chose to come for work, freedom or to join family. Their journey was voluntary migration.
Africans came in a very different way. In August 1619, more than 20 Africans who had been captured were brought by ship to Point Comfort in the English colony of Virginia. For almost 200 years after that, many more Africans were taken from their homes by force, carried across the ocean and enslaved. They had no choice. This was forced migration. A law ended bringing enslaved people into the country in 1808, and slavery itself was ended in 1865.
Worked example: In what year did Ellis Island begin receiving immigrants?
- The lesson gives the years 1892 to 1954.
- The first year is 1892.
Worked answer: 1892.
Day 78: Moving Within the United States
In the 1830s, the United States government forced the Muscogee (Creek) and Cherokee peoples to leave their homelands, including land in Alabama. Most Muscogee people were removed by 1836. In 1838, soldiers forced Cherokee families from their homes, and one group left from Fort Payne, Alabama. They had to travel hundreds of miles to Indian Territory, in what is now Oklahoma. Many people became sick and died on the way. This forced removal is called the Trail of Tears.
From about 1910 to 1970, about six million Black Americans chose to leave the South, including Alabama, for cities in the North, Midwest and West. They moved to find better jobs and to get away from unfair laws. This movement is called the Great Migration.
Worked example: Where did the Cherokee people have to travel to?
- The lesson tells where the Trail of Tears ended.
- It ended in Indian Territory, in what is now Oklahoma.
Worked answer: Indian Territory, in what is now Oklahoma.
Day 79: A Family or Community Move
Every family and community has stories of moving. Asking older people about a move is one way to learn history, and their answers are a primary source for what they lived through.
A simple map can show a move. Mark the old place and the new place, then draw an arrow from where the people started to where they went.
Worked example: On a map of a move, which way should the arrow point?
- The arrow shows the direction of the move.
- It starts at the old place.
Worked answer: From the old place to the new place.
Day 80: Independent Check: Migration
Today you will answer on your own.
Use what you learned this week: reasons people move, voluntary and forced migration, arriving in the United States, and moving within it.
Worked example: What is migration?
- Migration is about moving.
- It means moving from one place to live in another.
Worked answer: Moving from one place to live in another.
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