VUS SOL 8

Following the Civil War the westward movement of settlers intensified into the area between the _____________ and the Pacific Ocean

• Mississippi River

• Atlantic Ocean

• Appalachian Mountains

The years immediately before and after the Civil War were the era of the _______________

• Black Hills

• American cowboy

• Native American

• Medical reforms

What gave free public land in the western territories to settlers who would live on and farm it?

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Ghent

• Homestead Act

• Proclamation of 1763

Southerners and African Americans moved ________________ to seek new opportunities after the Civil War

• North

• South

• East

• West

What immigrant group is known for their help in building the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Chinese

• Japanese

• French

• Japanese

Which of the following groups DID NOT labor in coal mines of the east?

• Slavs

• Franks

• Italians

• Poles

European immigrants entered America through _____________

• Angel Island

• Long Island

• Manhattan Island

• Ellis Island

Many countries melding into one way of American life is known as what?

• Melting pot/Assimilation

• Diffusion

• Oxidization

• Manifest Destiny

What public accommodation was essential in helping immigrants assimilate to American life?

• Public church

• Public schools

• Public transportation

• Public sewer

People found jobs in cities but lived in harsh conditions in ______________ or slums

• Shelters

• Tenements

• Ghettos

• Boxes