Chapter 6 Review

Vocabulary Terms:

oral history                                immigration

classify                                       Independence, Missouri

prairie                                         Ellis Island

Abraham Lincoln                      Oregon City, Oregon

migration                                    Great Migration

Martin Luther King Jr.              Statue of Liberty

diaries                                        citizenship

pioneer                                       oath

Which term belongs with which definition;

People telling what life was like in the past.

A statement in which a person swears to tell the truth.

Flat or rolling land covered with tall grass.

To group similar things together.

The movement of people form one part of a country to another part.

Someone who comes to live in a new country.

A person who leads the way into a land not known to them.

The movement north of African Americans in the early 1900s.

Civil rights leader who believed all people should be treated fairly,

The war between the northern and southern states from 1861 - 1865 that ended slavery.

A written record of what someone has done or thought.

This was though of as the "jumping off" spot because many pioneers traveling west left from here.

President of the United States of America during the Civil War.

A place where many people came to when they first came to the United States to immigrate.

Symbol of freedom in the harbor of New York City.

Many settlers who were traveling west on the Oregon Trail planned to settle here.

Compare (tell how they are alike and different) immigration today - with the migration of African Americans to the north during the Great Migration.

What was it like traveling on the Oregon Trail?