Reform Movements in the United States
1. The Irish and Germans were the two largest immigrant groups to the United States in the mid-1800s.
They came due to a variety of push-and-pull factors. Write the letter of each answer choice in the correct
position in the table. Some answer choices may be used more than once or not at all.
Irish
Germans
Push Factors
Pull Factors
A. available land for farming
B. famine
C. failed revolutions
D. nativism
E. plenty of unskilled jobs
F. poverty
G. wider economic freedom for skilled workers
2. What was the main goal of the Know-Nothing Party?
A. to force immigrants to become Protestant
B. to prevent Catholics from getting pubic jobs
C. to prevent Catholics and immigrants from holding public office