Western Expansion Practice

What is a push factor?

• job shortages

• good education

• religious freedom

• reunion with family

What is a pull factor?

• famine

• civil war

• persecution

• cheap land

_______ was the main immigration port in the United States for 60 years.

• Boston

• Ellis Island

• Manhatten

• Philedelphia

All immigrants between 1892 and 1954 arrived on the East Coast

• True

• False

Which act opened up farm land?

• Homestead Act of 1862

• Potato Famine Act of 1841

• Immigrant Land Act of 1853

• Farming and Jobs Act of 1952

Which group was the first to be locked from immigrating to the United States?

• Chinese

• Dutch

• Germans

• Irish

How much of New York City's population was immigrants in 1900?

• one quarter

• one third

• one half

• three quarters

Many Asian immigrants came into the U.S. through

• Angel island

• Ellis Island

Where did many German immigrants settle

• California

• Midwest

• New York

• Southwest

What work did many immigrant women do?

• construction

• laundry

• manufacturing

• mining