Part A
Short-Answer Questions
Directions: Analyze the documents and answer the short-answer questions that follow each document in the
space provided.
Document 1
Number of Immigrants
Entering U.S. Each Year
1,200,000
1,100,000
Hard Times & U.S. Industrial
Epidemics in Italy Expansion
1,000,000 -
900,000
Irish Famine &
Military Draft Anti-Semitism &
in Germany Draft in Russia
Japanese
Immigration
800,000
World War I
700,000
U.S. Depressions
1884 & 1893
600,000
Panic of 1873
and Depression
Chinese Immigration
Economic Opportunity Railroad Building &
Free Western Land
U.S. Panic
Political Unrest of 1857
in Germany
Outbreak of
Irish Famine
U.S. Civil War!
500,000
400,000
300,000
200,000
U.S. Depressions
1837 & 1843
100,000
1830
1840
1850
1860
1890
1900
1870 1880
Year
1910
1920
Source: Martin W. Sandler, In Search of America, Ginn (adapted)
la Based on this graph, identify two conditions in their native countries that caused immigrants to come
to the United States. [2]
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(2)
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