Name: _______________________________ Eakins
Social Studies 7th Grade
The Hope of Immigrants
Directions; Use the textbook, Creating America, to complete this activity.
Define immigrant
Look at the chart and reading on pate 424. Complete the Push-Pull factors of Immigration
“Pull Factors” “Push Factors”
List 3 three Pull Factors List five Push Factors
a. c. a. c. e.
b. b. d.
Directions: Read the explanation of “Push-Pull Factors” on page 424. Determine if the following is a Push Factor out of Europe or a
Pull Factor to the United States. Write the words Push from Europe or Pull to the US on the lines below.
1. Europe became overpopulated; land was overcrowded ___________________________
2. Everyone has the freedom to practice his/her religion ____________________________
3. New farm technology required fewer farmers to grow food for the population _______________________________
4. Jews fled Germany and Quakers fled Norway ______________________________
5. Louisiana Purchase and Mexican Cession, millions of acres of land ____________________________
6. Factories produced goods once made by artisans (skilled workers) _____________________________
7. Poor harvests causing debt and hunger __________________________
8. Believed this country was a “land of opportunity” ____________________________
Directions: Look at the charts and map on page 425. Answer the questions that follow.
1. What decade saw the greatest number of immigrants coming to the U.S.? __________________________
2. Most immigrants, during the years 1820-1860, came from what country? ___________________________
3. Name three states that had the highest immigrant population? __________________, _________________, _________________
4. Which region of the country had the highest immigrant totals, North or South? _____________________________
5. Why would more immigrants come to the __________________ than the ________________________? (use answer from #4)
Directions: Use the section “Irish Flee Hunger” on page 426 to answer the following questions.
1. What was Ireland’s main crop in the 1800’s? _______________________________
2. What happened to that crop? _____________________________
3. What is a famine? _______________________________
4. How many Irish died during the Potato Famine? __________________________
5. By 1854, how many Irish immigrants had fled Ireland? ______________________________
6. By 1859, Irish immigrants made up ¼ of the population in what four cities? ____________________, ________________,
______________________, __________________
Directions: Using the section titled “U.S. Cities Face Overcrowding” on page 426-427, and the pictures below, create a list of
problems in early cities.