Making Connections

1. Americans expressed both wonder and concern at the nation’s mushrooming cities. Why did cities provoke such divergent responses?

2. Why did patterns of immigration to the United States in the late nineteenth century change? How did Americans respond to the immigrants?

3. How did urban industrialization affect Americans’ lives outside of work?

4. When workers began to embrace organization in the late 1870s, what did they hope to accomplish? Were they successful? Why or why not?