06 02 2011 Test 2 Immigration People are not necessarily taken against there will Are they going to be successful in the US Four Factors of success 1 Money money runs the country Most immigrants are passed poor no money many owe money 2 Numbers How many people are coming from your country WASPs want small numbers of people so they do not lose power Could move away from the rest of your people 3 Location If you all settle in the same place it looks like there are more of you Immigrants want the opposite of what WASPs want 4 Stereotypes WASPs are gossiping assholes Irish stereotypes set up by the English are bad First Wave Immigration 1830 1880 Irish Chinese German Have some things in common money land freedom Pull Factors Proto Industrial Revolution o Making things for the first time unskilled o Started breaking up jobs Ex To make a dress you have to buy fabric have someone to sew the arm o Stuff is being made fast and cheap Unskilled workers are needed and people went to other countries to recruit for new jobs Freed slave competes with immigrants for these jobs Cities New York Boston Chinese Go to San Francisco CA o 1845 New York 35 foreign born o Boston 35 foreign born 1855 NY 53 foreign born Immigration from Ireland Push factor They had problems with England 1169 Norman Invasion of Oreland o leave England and try to take over Ireland Not very successful 1541 England conquers Ireland Henry V11 is named King of Ireland o Brings culture religion to Ireland No longer speak Irish 1606 James the 1st and Plantation System o They take the land and make Irish work on the land basically slaves o Plantation of Ulster One of the biggest plantations o Now called Northern Ireland o England gives these plantations to friends Nobles o Ulster Scots Scots Irish they give land to the Scottish people The Scots helped Invade Ireland They fight because England promised land The land is worked on by people who used to own the land they are pissed o The English considered the Irish to be savages No civilization and savage o Scots are told to control the natives Plantation System o They call the Irish on the Plantations Tenant Farmers They are actually slaves we just cant call them that o 1600 Irish own 80 of land o 1778 English own 95 of land 1607 Penal Law Irish Codes What they can and can not do Illegal to be catholic you have to be the church of England No Language other then English No weapons Curfew Can t be educated Population Economics Overpopulation Not enough resources for the country to support them 8 million people Rural Population they are only farmers slave o They have no education They made the Irish basically savages High illiteracy rate Illegal to go to school o Wont be successful in growing Industrial Age Permanent Underclass Irish are considered non citizens No right to vote aren t allowed to be involved in any laws First Irish to come Ulster Scots Set negative stereotypes for Irish Ulster Scots or Scots Irish 1765 1775 Push Pull Factors Problem with England They thought the Scots were too nice to the natives Penal laws Formation Migration Money They have money because they want to get away from England and being plantation owners o They also hear America has money The English don t go to the 13 Colonies English owners They go to the Back Country in the Appalachian Mountains Location Back country No one thought anyone could ever live there They have to fight Indians at first because the Scots look English Appalachian Mountains Western Pennsylvania W Virginia Kentucky Tennessee N Carolina Numbers 250 000 Go away from WASPs They have money because they were plantation owners in Ireland Scots Irish Stereotypes Violent Family clans Not necessarily blood related but they have to be linked by something like a treaty Clans hate other clans or people outside of their clan Boys Girls trained fighters o 6 years olds were given guns o Women taught to use weapons they are told they will be raped during their lifetime at age 8 Poor when they first came they were not poor Living conditions In back country were bad One room one bedroom everyone slept in the same bed They don t mind living this way because they are away from the WASPs No running water no electricity They don t consider themselves poor at all Drunks there is a difference between someone who drinks and a drunk Drunk stumbling incoherent sexual creep Scots Irish just think they drink WASPS call them drunks Scots have no drinking age they think that parents should introduce alcohol to them Wasps are prude women can t drink drinking clubs o We outlaw alcohol in 1920s Americans don t believe in hard liquor Scots drink SCOTCH Scots used alcohol for medicinal purposes as well But not Irish Religion Presbyterian Not Catholic Protestant Become white they don t have a preacher or a minister to get married so they marry in the eyes of god Push Factors biggest the Potato Famine Gorta Mor which means The Great Hunger Potato Blight 1840 A disease that gets into the potato This actually came from the US For the Irish the potato is everything They are allowed to grow food around their cabin They grow potatoes in the house right under their feet All the food grown in Ireland generally is sent to England o The Great Famine 1845 1852 1 Million died 1 8 of the population This actually helps overpopulation More resources more jobs The Famine is with us yesterday today and always Trans Atlantic Crossing From Dublin Ireland and came to US Boston and New York The ships are nicknaked Coffin Ships Irish have never been on a boat before so they get sea sick The Trip on the boat is up to 3 months Sterrage Class Irish had to be with the Cargo for space down in the bottom They needed money to buy food The ticket only bought them onto Ship Fever tuberculosis cough up blood Everyone coming off the boat is of the boat the boat either dead or very sick Death rate 15 20 The Immigrants Money No Most are passed poor They owe people money Owe the captain money People in the US buy off the debt from the ship captain They will be able to collect interest from the Irish Common immigrant o Poor unskilled single costs money to get married o Gallic Gaelic outlawed Yes A lot of them will actually speak English Numbers Chain Migration One person is chosen to go to America from a village that persons job is to go to the US They are Anchor Immigrants They work and send all their money to Ireland to be able to send more Immigrants poor unskilled single MALE 1 5 Million during the
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