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Title: H11/29/12; T11/22/11; T11/16/10; T11/17/09; W11/19/08; H11/29/07; M11/27/06; M11/28/05 Immigration in 1840


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H11/29/12 T11/22/11 T11/16/10 T11/17/09
W11/19/08 H11/29/07 M11/27/06
M11/28/05Immigration in 1840s 1850s(Ch.
13.1 pp. 351-358)
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Opening Questions
  • Q How did immigration impact PERSIA factors in
    the 1840s 1850s?
  • Q How did native-born Americans respond to the
    immigration of the time period?

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I. Overview
  • great wave of immigration
  • 1845-54 3M immigrants
  • Out of approx. 20M population
  • 1.8M Irish
  • Largest proportion of immigrants ever
  • Irish German
  • 1860 12 foreign born

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Historical Immigration to the U.S.
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II. Reasons
  • escape persecution
  • small number of imm.
  • religious English Mormons, Swedish Quakers
  • political German 48ers
  • Economic opportunity
  • vast majority of imm.
  • Irish potato famine
  • Germans

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III. Settlement Patterns
  • Irish
  • British port cities ? NE cities (5 Points)
  • individuals Paddy Bridget
  • Catholic
  • unskilled jobs domestic servants
  • economic competition w/ free blacks Nativists
  • anti-abolitionist, pro-Catholic
  • Irish Stereotypes

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III. Settlement Patterns(cont.)
  • B. Germans
  • Central Eur. ports ? MS/NO to MS river GL
    cities
  • St.L, Cin, Mil, Chi, Det
  • families whole comm.
  • insular group built strong comm.
  • different classes move together
  • Lutheran (some Catholic Jewish)
  • distrust by Nativists

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IV. Nativists
  • native-born Americans (at least 1 generation)
  • anti-immigrant
  • resented private Catholic schools
  • fear of papacy, drinking
  • riots fights 1844 Bible Riots
  • create American Party (Know Nothing Party)
  • national party by 1850s

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V. Irish Politics
  • Democratic Party
  • Why?
  • jobs, neighborhood associations
  • Other parties?
  • Whigs public schools, temperance
  • Free Soil, Liberty, Republican anti-slavery
  • Know-Nothings anti-immigrant

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Closing Questions
  • Comparisons to earlier immigration patterns?
  • economic vs. religious/political freedom?
  • Why Nativists?
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