Immigration STAAR Review

Most North American settlers during the 17th and 18th centuries arrived from nations in ​ (a)   .

• Western Europe
• East Africa
• Eastern Europe
• South America

Identify the colonial area each religious group moved to in America.

a

b

c

Puritans & Pilgrims

Quakers

Catholics

Which group helped establish the colony of Maryland in the 1630s?

• English Catholics seeking religious freedom

• Spanish workers seeking job opportunities

• Irish families escaping a natural disaster

• Russian merchants escaping political conflict

This early map of New England was published in 1677.

Which of the following names the group best known for settling this region and states their reason for settling?

• Merchants

  To trade with the region's American Indians

• Quakers

  To establish a colony free of slavery

• Explorers

  To map the region's rivers

• Puritans

  To freely practice their religion

Catholics immigrated to the Maryland colony in the 17th century primarily to -

• profit from natural resources

• avoid crop failures and famine

• produce cash crops to pay off debts

• escape persecution

Between 1846 and 1855 the population of Ireland decreased by a third, including the approximately 1.5 million Irish immigrants who left for the United States. What was the primary reason for this migration?

• Massive unemployment resulting from British occupation

• Political unrest during an economic recession

• Famine caused by a major crop failure

• Civil war between Catholics and Protestants

In the 1840s, thousands of Irish immigrants came to the United States seeking to escape -

• a civil war between Protestants and Catholics

• a famine caused by the failure of a staple food crop

• a series of violent conflicts between the British and Irish governments

• a series of smallpox epidemics

Which of these was a primary reason Chinese immigrants came to the United States in the early 1850s?

• To seek gold

• To purchase inexpensive farmland

• To avoid a plague

• To escape religious persecution

Which pull factor accounted for much of Chinese immigration to the United States in the mid-1800s?

• An opportunity for free land in the South

• The prospect of religious freedom in the East

• An economic boom in the West

• The possibility of a free education in the North

This list describes the 19th century experiences of immgrants from ​ (a)  

• China
• Italy
• Germany
• Japan