VA SOL 8

The Homestead Act benefited which type of Western settlers?

• farmers
• miners
• cowboys
• the Chinese

What group would be associated with the map?

• Native Americans
• cowboys
• miners
• farmers

What immigrant group worked on the western part of the transcontinental railroad?

• Chinese
• Italian
• German
• Irish

What would be the best title for the table?

• Things that made industry more efficient
• Things that made workers' lives harder
• Things that increased immigration
• Things that slowed economic growth in this period

What would be the best title for this table?

• The Power of Big Business in the Late 1800s
• Problems that Workers had in the Late 1800s
• Reasons Immigrants Came to the US in the Late 1800s
• Corrupt Politics in the Late 1800s

What statement would best fit the "?" in the Venn Diagram?

• The strikes failed
• The strike was successful
• The government helped workers
• Workers' conditions improved

What is the best title for the text shown?

• Reasons immigrants wanted to come to the USA
• Pros and cons to immigrants coming to the USA
• Reasons the Chinese left Asia
• Reasons the Italians left Italy

Which two letters on the map represent "New Immigration"?

• C and D
• A and B
• A and C
• B and D

Which of the following countries would be a "new immigration" country?

• Russia
• Great Britain
• Germany
• Ireland

All of the following are true except --

• immigrants were accepted by Americans with open arms
• immigrants moved into ethnic neighborhoods (they lived near people like them)
• immigrants often continued to speak their old language
• immigrants continued to practice customs from their old culture