The Push and Pull of Immigration

        Historians explain immigration as  system of "Push" and "Pull". Negative factors of an immigrant's native land were "push factors" driving people out of their country.  The "pull factors" were the positive aspects of the United States that made people want to move there.  Most immigrants came to the United States for either Social, Political, or Economic reasons.
       In the late 1840s, hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Ireland and Germany began to arrive in the United States.  Port cities like New York, Philadelphia, and Boston saw their populations dramatically rise over a short period of time.  Tonight for H.W. finish reading and marking up the handout on the Irish in Boston.


Here are some practice questions for the quiz tomorrow:

1. What are two reasons that explain why the Industrial Revolution started in Great Britain?


2. Who invented the waterframe?


3. Why did New York State spend millions of dollars constructing the Erie Canal?  What were two results of the Erie Canal?


4. What is a turnpike?