History

Discussion Questions (CH18)

Paper instructions:
1. What were the lives of late nineteenth-century women and of both working-class and middle-class families like?

2. What were the “new” immigrants in the late nineteenth century like? Where did they emigrate from? Why did they

emigrate? How were they accepted by American citizens?

3. What were the late nineteenth century secular and religious criticisms directed at America’s urban and

industrial growth and the solutions these critics provided?