Immigration and Western Expansion Quiz

What is the definition of Immigration?

• The transfer of land from one country to another

• The action of coming to live in a foreign country

• The movement of people from one place to another

• The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit

What term describes America's desire for the western territories that were not claimed or were claimed by other countries?

• Manifest Destiny

• Western Expansion

• Annexation

• Cession

What are push-pull factors?

• Conditions that draw people to another location or cause people to leave their homelands

• A severe shortage of food resulting in hunger and starvation

• Prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control

• Common beliefs, ideas or customs that bring people together

What does the term 'famine' refer to?

• A notion held by nineteenth-century Americans about their country's destiny

• A severe shortage of food resulting in violent hunger and starvation

• The action of coming to live in a foreign country

• The transfer of land from one country to another

What is meant by the term 'oppression'?

• The movement of people from one place to another

• The action of coming to live in a foreign country

• Prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control

• The transfer of land from one country to another

What does 'cession' mean?

• The action of coming to live in a foreign country

• The movement of people from one place to another

• The transfer of land from one country to another

• The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit

What is the definition of 'annexation'?

• The action of coming to live in a foreign country

• The movement of people from one place to another

• The transfer of land from one country to another

• The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit

Which group of immigrants came to the U.S. because of the Irish Potato Famine?

• German Immigrants

• Irish Immigrants

• Cultural ties

• Assimilate

What does it mean to 'assimilate'?

• The transfer of land from one country to another

• The movement of people from one place to another

• Change one's customs and habits to those of the surrounding culture

• The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit

What term describes settlers who acquired free land from the government?

• agrarian

• homesteader

• urban

• economic opportunity