CHAPTER SIXTEEN. WHO WAS COMING TO AMERICA IN THE1800s? IMMIGRANTS WERE COMING TO AMERICA! BRITISH...

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CHAPTER SIXTEEN

WHO WAS COMING TO AMERICA IN THE1800s?

• IMMIGRANTS WERE COMING TO AMERICA!

BRITISH

IRISH

GERMANS

SCANDANAVIANS

MANY PEOPLE

IN EUROPE

WERE BEING

PUSHED OUT!

WHY WERE PEOPLE BEING PUSHED OUT OF EUROPE?

1. POPULATION (OVERCROWDED)2. LACK OF WORK3. POOR HARVESTS4. GOVERNMENT CORRUPT5. PERSECUTION (RELIGIOUS)

WHY WERE EUROPEANS

BEING PULLED TO AMERICA?

PULL??

• ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY

• JOBS

• LAND

• A BEETER LIFE

• FREEDOM FOR PESECUTION

WHY WOULD SOMEONE FROM SWEEDEN WANT TO COME TO

AMERICA?

• DROUGHT AND FAMINE

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WHY WOULD IRISHMEN WANT TO COME TO AMERICA?

• COULD NOT VOTE

• COULD NOT HOLD OFFICE

• COULD NOT INHERIT LANDCOULD NOT GO TO SCHOOL

• COULD NOT PRACTICE THEIR RELIGION

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CHURHES WERE POWERFUL SOURCES OF HOPE FOR THE

IRISH

THERE WAS A GREAT PREJUDICE BETWEEN

CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS

NATIVISTS

• NATIVE BORN THAT WANTED TO STOP OR RESTRICT THE INFLUENCE OF THE FOREIGN BORN!

IN 1850 THE KNOW-NOTHING PARTY WAS ESTABLISHED

• The Know Nothing movement was a nativist American political movement of the 1840s and 1850s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States

American Party

Founded 1845

Dissolved 1860

Preceded by Whig Party, Native American Party

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THE KNOW NOTHING PARTY TRIED TO….

• LIMIT THE POWER OF THE IRISH IMMIGRANTS

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WHAT HAPPENED WHEN AMERICANS STARTING

ACCEPTING IRISH IMMIGRANTS?

GERMANS WERE THE LARGEST IMMIGRANT GROUP IN THE

1800s.

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LEVI STRAUSS WAS THE GERMAN IMMIGRANT

RESPONSIBLE FOR INVENTING BLUE JEANS

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HOW DID IMMIGRANTS CHANGE AMERICA?

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WALT WHITMAN

• ”HERE IS NOT MERELY A NATION BUT A….NATION OF NATIONS.”

I WONDER WHAT PART OF THE COUNTY IMMIGRANTS SETTLED

IN DURING THE 1800s?

I WONDER WHY?

• THEY COULDN’T COMPETE WITH THE SLAVE TRADE TRADE!

WHAT DO I DO NOW?

• 1. OPEN BOOK TO P. 383• 2. OPEN BINDER TO CH 16 QUESTIONS (1-15)• 3. USE TEXTBOOK AND YOUR BRAIN TO

ANSWER (1-15)• 4. DO YOU ACCEPT PEOPLE’S DIFFERENCE

OR DO YOU MAKE FUN OF THEM? • HOW BORING WOULD THIS LIFE BE IF

EVERYONE WAS EXACTLY THE SAME! EMBRACE DIFFERENCES!

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