Assignment 18

1. Using the above graph, fill out the following chart.  (in % of total immigrants)

2  What is the range between 1840 and 1920 of:

            a)  Northern and Western Europe?

            b)  Southern and Eastern Europe?

3.  What change do you suppose occurred in the United States due to these statistics?

4. What do you suppose led to the statistics for 1920-1940.

Use the above graph to answer the following questions.

10.  In what year did the highest number of immigrants come in to the United States?

11.  What was the range between the highest and lowest point of immigration on the above graph?

Assignment # 19                                                                 Skills Worksheet - Industrial America

1.  List the 3 largest cites in population in 1850, then in 1900. (include the population)

            1850                                                                           1900

            1.                                                                                 1.

            2.                                                                                 2.

            3.                                                                                 3.

2.  What city had the largest range between the 1850 and 1900 populations? 

3.  What percentage growth occurred in each of the cites from 1850 to 1900?

4.  What was the mean population growth (in percentage) for all of the cities?  Compare the mean to the

      growth of Chicago. 

5. Why do you suppose Chicago showed the growth that it did?

12.  What was the mean immigration between 1900 and 1905?

13.  What changes in the U.S. could account for the general growth from 1860 to 1910?

14.  What do you suppose led to the drop in immigration in the1920's?