Now that you have learned a great deal about the experience of immigrants and the life in cities during the second half of the 19th century, use this knowledge and your notes to complete this assignment.

1. List the forces pushing immigrants from their homelands. (Why did they leave?)

2. List the forces pulling the immigrants into the US. (Why did they come?)

3. Compare and contrast the new immigrants to the old immigrants.

4. What were the benefits of immigrants settling in ethnic communities? What were some of the disadvantages of this?

5. Describe at least three pieces of evidence that demonstrates the growth of nativism in the United States as the amount of immigrants grew.

6. Discuss at least three problems plaguing the fast growing cities in America.