Chapter 3 Test Review

A booster is a person who

• gives immunization shots to the sick

• is competing with another person

• helps or supports something

To exploit someone means to 

• take advantage of them

• to send them back to their own country

• discriminate

Provisions are supplies of food, drinks and equipment for a journey.

• True

• False

What is the definition of reluctant?

• to disappear

• to relocate to a new country

• to not want to do something

A rival is

• a hammer used to build railroads

• a person competing with another person

• the end of a railroad track

Which is the best definition for urbanization?

• when a city loses most of its population to immigration

• the mining of silver

• a transformation from a countryside to a city

Why was a transcontinental railroad important to the growth of Washington?

• It connected Washington State with cities on the East side of the United States.

• It connected Europe with the United States.

• So people from all over the world could come to visit.

• It provided more money to the wealthy landowners.

Which of the following is true about the Chinese and Irish workers who helped build the railroad?

• They were given free money to buy land.

• They received fair wages compared to the white Americans.

• They were welcomed by Americans.

• They were paid less than American-born workers.

Which immigrant group left their country because of starvation and settled mostly in Boston, New York and Philadelphia?

• German

• Irish

• Hawaiian

• Scandinavian

Which immigrant group escaped food shortages, strict laws, and political problems to take on jobs in fishing and dairy farming?  Carl Hanson also founded the White River Lumber/Shingle Company.

• Hawaiian

• German

• Irish

• Scandinavian