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Laborers worked longer hours for lower wages.

Mass Production

Skilled Workers Proud

Creative

Management Position Families

Whistle

Most factories were without heating

systems or windows

Accidents

Wages Organize

Trade Unions

Artisans in each trade united

Shorter Workday

Higher Wages

Better Working

Conditions

Strike

Workers refuse to do their jobs

Ten-Hour Right

Replaced Demands

Women earned less money then men did. Union leaders did not want women in their ranks.

4 United States

Famine

Disease and Starvation

Severe food shortage

Shortages Germany 101

Build Canals Build Bridges

Lower Stealing

Replaced

Distrust

A political party created because of the hostilities felt toward immigrants. Members of the party

were anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant.

Nativists

Native White

“Americans Must Rule America”

Servants in Private Homes

Political Cartoons

Directions: Below are 6 political cartoons depicting the feelings many white, native-born Americans had toward immigrants from Ireland and other European countries.

Use the political cartoons to answer the questions.

1. The man on the right is carrying a box marked “Ballot,” what is this cartoon implying Irish immigrants are doing?

2. The man on the left is representing someone from the Know-Nothing Party. What action does this cartoon suggest Americans should take against immigrants?

3. Many Irish families fled Ireland following famine. What does this cartoon suggest about Irish immigrants?

4. During the mid-1800s, Ireland was under British rule. Great Britain would pay for the transportation of impoverished Irish immigrants from Ireland to the United States. Why do you think Great Britain was doing that?

5. This cartoon depicts an Irishman. What can you determine from this picture about the behavior of Irish immigrants?

6. The Irish immigrant is lighting the powder keg he is sitting on top of. What might that represent about the effects immigration has had on the north in the 1800s?

7. This cartoon makes a comparison between the North and the South in the 1840s. Who does the cartoon depict?

8. Drawing from your prior knowledge, what might this political cartoon be saying about Irish Americans in comparison to African Americans?

9. In this cartoon, what might you understand about the treatment of Irish Americans as they are depicted by the “wild beast”?

10. The people outside of the cage represent Native-born Americans. How does this cartoon depict native-born people?

11. Describe this cartoon. What does it imply about Europe and the United States?

Freed Discrimination

Trouble Jobs

Competition

A policy or attitude that denies equal rights to certain groups of people

John Russwurn

Macon Allen

Henry Blair

Henry Boyd

William Whipper

Editor of first African American newspaper

First African American licensed to practice law in the US

Invented a cottonseed planter and corn planter

Operated a furniture company in OH

Owner of a lumberyard in PA