Immigration and Urbanization

Which statement best completes the diagram?

• Farmers refuse to move to new territories

• European states rapidly industrialize

• Fewer Americans support nativism

• Americans have larger families

One reason U.S. cities grew during the early 19th century was:

• improvements to public schools

• industrialization in the South

• increasing trade with foreign countries

• the spread of nativist policies

Which factor caused many Irish immigrants to come to the United States in the 19th century?

• U.S. policies that promoted Catholic religion

• A growing demand for farm labor in the American South

• The collapse of Irish potato crops due to disease

• The chance to buy huge plots of American land

U.S. cities grew quickly during the early 1800s because:

• nativists called for more Americans to move to cities

• recent immigrants often had to live in cities

• poor transportation made it difficult to leave cities

• education became freely available in cities

How was the U.S. population changing in the early 1800s?

• It was made up of smaller families

• It had a growing African slave population

• it had a shrinking immigrant population

• It was becoming much older

Which statement best completes the diagram?

• Disease destroys potato crops in Ireland

• U.S. leaders call for more Catholic immigration

• German cities become highly industrialized

• More Americans begin to support nativism

How was the U.S. population changing in the early 1800s?

• Families were having fewer children

• The slave population was shrinking

• It was becoming much older

• The immigrant population was growing

U.S. cities grew quickly during the early 1800s because:

• agriculture became more important to the economies of cities

• trade with other countries brought people and business to cities

• governments paid for impressive schools and housing in cities

• nativists called for more Protestants to move to cities

Which statement best completes the diagram?

• The Know-Nothing gains political power

• Cities in Europe go through industrialization

• Irish farmers grow rich harvesting potatoes

• Germans hope to escape unfair governments

Which statement best completes the diagram?

• European cities go through industrialization

• German potato crops are struck by disease

• The Irish suffer from starvation

• American nativists welcome more immigrants