Westward expansion and immigration quiz #1

Question 1

Immigrate

Answer 1

To move To another place

Question 2

Emigrate

Answer 2

To move from another place

Question 3

Push factors

Answer 3

Factors that push you out of a country

Question 4

Pull factors

Answer 4

Reasons to attract somebody to immigrate

Question 5

Assimilation

Answer 5

To adopt culture, taste and habits of how a new country,leaving ones old identity behind

Question 6

What was the Louisiana purchase?

Answer 6

When the US bought all of the french territory for only 15 million dollars instead of buying New Orleans just for 10 million (3 cents per acre).

Question 7

Manifest destiny

Answer 7

Obvious fate

Question 8

What was the Texas annex?

Answer 8

When the republic of Texas (a private country) was annexed and became part of the US

Question 9

What was the Mexican Cession?

Answer 9

When we went to war with Mexico, won, payed 18 million dollars and to California, which was good for oil and gold

Question 10

What was the Alaska purchase?

Answer 10

When we got Alaska for 7.2 million dollars from Russia

Question 11

How did we get Hawaii?

Answer 11

Hawaii was a private country, then we annexed it to get pineapples

Question 12

How did the US get Iowa, Washington and Oregon?

Answer 12

We made a deal with British Columbia, they got Vancouver and up, we got IA, WA and OR

Question 13

What was the sailship wave?

Answer 13

When we got so many immigrants, Germany, China and Ireland

Question 14

What was the potato famine?

Answer 14

A famine that rotted potatoes all over Ireland and caused many deaths and diseases

Question 15

What caused the potato famine and was it a push or a pull factor?

Answer 15

Winds caused the famine and it was a push factor

Question 16

What type of jobs did immigrants get and where did the Irish typically settle?

Answer 16

They were laborers and the Irish typically settled in New York/Boston

Question 17

What was the largest group of immigrants?

Answer 17

The Germans

Question 18

Why did the Germans come?

Answer 18

The black plague

Question 19

What were the pull factors for Germans?

Answer 19

Economic opportunity

Question 20

Naturalize

Answer 20

To emmit a foreigner

Question 21

Nativism

Answer 21

In favor of native born team

Question 22

Xenophobia

Answer 22

Fear/ hatred of foreigners

Question 23

Why did the Chinese come to America?

Answer 23

Jobs, gold, transcontinental railroad

Question 24

Why did we kick the Chinese out of America?

Answer 24

Because they took the American jobs

Question 25

When were Asians banned from immigrating?

Answer 25

1870

Question 26

When were the Chinese directly banned from immigrating?

Answer 26

1882

Question 27

What is a public charge and why would you not be accepted in to the country?

Answer 27

A person the government would need to take care of, with mental disease, insane, disabled, lame or illiterate, or if you were a criminal or an anarchist you would not be accepted in

Question 28

What were the stairs of seperation?

Answer 28

Where you would go after you were all checked out and ready to go back or go to the US

Question 29

Where would you go on each of the stairs of seperation?

Answer 29

Right: NY
Left: NJ
Middle: back home