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Title: Immigration


1
Immigration
2
Great Lull
  • Seven Years War in Europe (1756)
  • American Revolution
  • French Revolution
  • Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815)
  • Great Britain prohibits slavery

3
American Population
  • Started to grow rapidly
  • Why?
  • cheap land
  • job opportunities
  • others were forced
  • From Where?
  • Immigrants from Western Europe

4
The Irish
  • The potato was the staple food source for the
    Irish
  • A fungus destroyed the potato crop and caused the
    Potato Famine
  • As new immigrants, they took some of the lowliest
    jobs available (construction or laying rail road
    tracks)
  • Irish women usually worked as household workers

5
The Germans
  • Harsh rulers and dictators on Germany
  • Large groups of people had taken part in
    revolutions which failed
  • Forced to flee to the United States
  • Many German immigrants moved west upon arrival to
    the United States
  • Some 60,000 fled to America after the failed
    Revolutions of 1848.

6
The American People
  • Nativist
  • Felt that the land of the United States was set
    aside for white, American born Protestants
  • Irish immigrants were mainly Catholics which did
    not sit well with the native

7
Know Nothings
  • An organized group of nativists from the New York
    area
  • When questions about the organization, they would
    only answer I know nothing
  • Had someone run for president in 1856

8
Declines in Immigration
  • Reproduction within the United States
  • Percent of immigrants decreases
  • 6 out of 7 people
  • Panic of 1837
  • Andrew Jacksons attack on the 2nd National Bank
  • Followed by a 5 year depression
  • American Civil War
  • 1861-1865
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