Selected Statistics Related to Industrialization United States Immigration 1861-1910
1800
1870
1880
1830
1900
1910
Value of
Manufactured
Products
51.9 on
$4.2 bilion
$5.3 on
$9.3 Don
$129 billion
$20.3 billion
Employed in Manufacturing
Number of Males Number of Females
103 min
270,357
161 million
323.500
201 min
529983
25 min
500.000
408 million
1.03 million
8.84 milion
1.2 milion
Decade
Total
1861-1870
2,314,824
1871-1880
2,812, 191
1881-1890
5.246,613
1891-1900
3,687,564"
1901-1910
8,796,386
Decline in numbers of immigrants due in part to the Depression 1893
Source: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Source: US, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Statistical
Research, Ann Arbor, MI. and U. S. Census Bureau Yearbook of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1998,
U. S. Government Printing Office
Which claim is best supported by the evidence in these charts?
Industrialization in the U. S. coincided with a decrease in immigration to the country.
The manufacturing sector provided only a small number of jobs during Industrialization.
Immigrant women did not participate in manufacturing in the U. S. because their cultures forbid
them from working.
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Immigration to the U. S. provided a steady source of laborers for a rapidly growing manufacturing
sector.
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