ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL
CONSEQUENCES OF RAPID
INDUSTRIALISATION IN THE LATE
19 TH CENTURY
Impact of new immigration from southern
and eastern Europe
CLASS DISCUSSION
• Did immigration have a positive or negative impact
on the USA in this period ?
RESEARCH TASK:
• Read and make notes on the different pull and
push factors that caused a boom in population
during this era.
• EXT : Produce a map showing the origins of new
immigrants in this period.
Push factors
Pull factors
Home work;
Read and the write a 5-point
summary of the ways big
business were criticized in the
19th century.