9. Immigration

Which country did not contribute many early settlers, or immigrants to America?

• Poland

• Holland

• England

• Germany

The potato blight struck which country?

• England

• Ireland

• Russia

• United States

Which city was not a port of entry to the Unites States for many European immigrants?

• Boston

• New Orleans

• New York

• San Francisco

What made the United States so attractive to European Farmers?

• Temperate climate

• plenty of land available

• both and b

• neither a nor b

Before the Civil War, which group of immigrants took the hardest, lowest-paying jobs?

• the Chinese

• The Irish

• the Italians

• the Germans

What is a tenement?

• a kind of food in Germany

• a boat that carried immigrants

• a crowded apartment building

• a tool for building canals

Why did immigration to the United States slow down during the mid-1860's?

• improvements in European economy

• the French Revolution

• the expense of the voyage

• the Civil War

What is the name for the wave of immigration to the United States after the Civil War?

• westward movement

• manifest destiny

• Old Immigration

• New Immigration

Where did most immigrants after the Civil War settle?

• mountains

• citiies

• farmland

• suburbs

What kind of jobs were open to most New Immigrants?

• farming

• teaching

• law

• factory and construction