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Chapter 6 Lesson 2 A New Home in America

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 3hrs 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is an immigrant?

a)

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

b)

Led Zeppelin

c)

A Region that forms the edge of a settled frontier.

d)

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

2.

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

a)

Skills and Energy the Country Needed

b)

Hate and Anger toward the United States

c)

They brought their ways of government which they wanted

3.

Daniel Boone helped to build what?

a)

The Washington Monument

b)

The Cumberland Gap

c)

The St.Louis Arch

d)

The Alamo

4.

What was the Homestead Act?

a)

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

b)

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

c)

A Law saying Americans could not settle West of the Mississippi

d)

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

5.

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

a)

Michigan

b)

Illinois

c)

Tennessee

d)

California

6.

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

a)

Japan

b)

Korea

c)

China

d)

Iran

7.

What does it mean to draw a conclusion?

a)

To jump to a judgement without evidence

b)

To sum up a series of events or information.

8.

John Roebling came to the United States from (a)  

9.

Many Homesteaders were (a)   .

10.

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)

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

e)

5