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WorksheetsA New Home in America
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
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
Why were homesteaders who bought land through the Homestead Act
required to build a house and live on the land for five years?
A house made the land more attractive.
Crops took a long time to grow and harvest.
The land would be worthless without a house.
People needed time to settle into communities.
The main reason why most immigrants came to the United States was to
__________.
become rich
work in mines
escape prison
start new lives
Why did many of the homesteaders that moved west after 1862 decide to
leave and return to their home?
They were forced to leave by the Homestead Act.
They weren’t allowed to build a house on the land.
They couldn’t afford to buy land or to build a house.
They couldn’t withstand the harsh living conditions.
During the _____________________, thousands of people came around the world to search for gold.
gold rush
Homestead Act
Exclusion Act
American Frontier
People formed communities to meet their need for _____________________ well-being.
exclusion
financial
material
gold rush
The United States government passed the ____________________ because some Americans thought that Chinese immigrants were taking too many jobs.
Homestead Act
American Frontier Act
Materials Act
Chinese Exclusion Act
____________________ means "keeping people out of a place."
Frontier
Immigrant
Exclusion
Financial
Why did immigrants from China stop coming to the United States after the
gold rush?
The Chinese were excluded from taking jobs in California.
The Japanese would not let the Chinese come to the United States.
The United States government passed the Chinese Exclusion Act to
prevent them from coming.
The Chinese did not want to take jobs in the United States anymore, so
they stopped coming.
Why do you think Asian immigrants settled mostly in California than on the
east coast?
They thought that California had more to offer than the east coast did.
It was easier to get to California from Asia than to go to the east coast.
They were afraid to go to the east coast because of the Chinese
Exclusion Act.
It was easier for Asian immigrants to be accepted in California than on the
east coast.
People could travel west easier across the Appalachian Mountains using the _______________________.
American Frontier
Homestead Act
Wilderness Road
Gold Rush
