Match the correct Cultural/Ethnic group to the description.
Chinese
religious group; persecuted
in New York for polygamy
(multiple wives) and sharing
property; established Utah
Territory and Salt Lake City;
Mormon Trail
faced poverty in Sweden,
Norway, and Finland; came
for cheap land, settled in
Minnesota and Wisconsin
with lakes, forests, cold
winters, like homeland;
Viking ancestry
faced crop failures in
homeland; came to
California during Gold Rush
as miners; discriminated
against; denied citizenship
because of race; major
workforce on
transcontinental railroad
Free Blacks
Germans
Irish
Mormons
Native Americans
Scandinavians
had no citizenship rights thousands of tribes once
(weapons for defense, covered the entire
elected office, public continent; by the mid-1800s
education), limited most had been wiped out;
economic opportunities; many were relocated to
Mostly in the North, but Oklahoma; endured
some in the South. discrimination and loss of
land; denied citizenship
rights
overcrowded in homeland; major crop failure in
many were either Jewish or homeland (potato famine);
Lutheran; often worked as many arrived poor &
travelling salespeople; starving; stayed in major
settled in Pennsylvania port cities like Boston, New
(1600-1700s), Minnesota, York City, Philadelphia,
Wisconsin, Texas, New York; Baltimore; most were
Well known for beer; Catholic (religious group);
introduced America to took low-paying, hard jobs
Christmas, kindergarten; like washing, canal &
largest immigrant group of railroad building, competed
1800s. with free blacks for worst
jobs that no one else
wanted; major workforce on
transcontinental railroad
Influences on US
Culture

Mormon Trail