A New Home in America

People who move from one country to settle in a different country are called ___________________.

• French

• Spanish

• Asian

• immigrants

One of the first things European immigrants saw when they arrived in the New York Harbor was the ______________________.

• Statue of Liberty

• White House

• Washington Monument

• John Curtis Christian School

A ____________________ is a region that forms the edge of a settled area.

• homestead

• frontier

• plain

• Cumberland Gap

How did Daniel Boone help to create new communities?

• He passed the Homestead Act, which gave Americans the chance to buy cheap land on the frontier.

• He explored the Mississippi River, which helped settlers travel and set up communities in the West.

• He helped build the transcontinental railroad, making it easier to travel from Nebraska to California.

• He helped widen the Cumberland Gap, allowing wagons and settlers to travel beyond the Appalachian Mountains.

Zebulon Pike explored the ____________________.

• Mississippi River

• Tennessee

• Louisiana Purchase

• wetlands

Davy Crockett explored _____________________

• Mississippi River

• Tennessee

• Louisiana Purchase

• wetlands

A ____________________ is an area of land that includes a house and its buildings.

• frontier

• river

• homestead

• mountain

The Homestead Act:

• allowed many Americans to get 160 acres of land for little money.

• helped people settle western lands.

• helped the country add new states.

• All of the above.

To be a _____________________, a person had to build a house and live on the land for five years.

• frontier

• immigrant

• homesteader

• American

Homesteaders built homes using any __________________ they could find.

• materials

• communities

• boats.

• land