Chapter 6 Lesson 2 A New Home in America

What is an immigrant?

• This is some who moves from one state of their country to another.

• Led Zeppelin

• A Region that forms the edge of a settled frontier.

• People who move from one country to another to settle and live.

What did Immigrants bring to the United States in the 1800s?

• Skills and Energy the Country Needed

• Hate and Anger toward the United States

• They brought their ways of government which they wanted

Daniel Boone helped to build what?

• The Washington Monument

• The Cumberland Gap

• The St.Louis Arch

• The Alamo

What was the Homestead Act?

• The Government took land from Americans and sold it to the Native Americans

• The US Government sold land of a 160 acres to people for a very cheap price.

• A Law saying Americans could not settle West of the Mississippi

• A Law saying Americans could not settle in the State of Illinois

What was the major state that people came from all around the world to look for Gold?

• Michigan

• Illinois

• Tennessee

• California

The Exclusion Act stop people from coming to America for 10 years from what country?

• Japan

• Korea

• China

• Iran

What does it mean to draw a conclusion?

• To jump to a judgement without evidence

• To sum up a series of events or information.

John Roebling came to the United States from ____________

Many Homesteaders were ________.

How hard do you think it was to be a homesteader in the west? Scale of 1-5 (1 Being Easy and 5 Being Extremely Hard)

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5