Test 2- ImmigrationPeople are not necessarily taken against there willAre they going to be successful in the US?Four Factors of success1.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 powerCould 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 want4. Stereotypes- WASPs are gossiping assholes.-----Irish stereotypes set up by the English are bad-------First Wave Immigration (1830-1880)- Irish, Chinese, GermanHave some things in common –money-land-freedomPull Factors- Proto Industrial RevolutionMaking things for the first time unskilledStarted breaking up jobsEx. To make a dress you have to buy fabric, have someone to sew the arm.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)1845- New York 35% foreign bornBoston 35 % foreign born1855- NY 53% foreign bornImmigration from IrelandPush factor: They had problems with England1169- Norman Invasion of Orelandleave England and try to take over IrelandNot very successful1541- England conquers Ireland – Henry V11 is named “King of Ireland”Brings culture/ religion to IrelandNo longer speak Irish1606- James the 1st and Plantation SystemThey take the land and make Irish work on the land basically “slaves”“Plantation of Ulster” – One of the biggest plantationsNow called Northern IrelandEngland gives these plantations to friends “Nobles”Ulster Scots “Scots Irish” – they give land to the Scottish peopleThe 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 pissedThe English considered the Irish to be savagesNo civilization and savageScots are told to control the nativesPlantation SystemThey call the Irish on the Plantations Tenant FarmersThey are actually slaves we just cant call them that1600- Irish own 80% of land1778- English own 95% of land1607- Penal Law- Irish Codes- What they can and can not doNo Language other then EnglishIllegal to be catholic you have to be the church of EnglandNo weaponsCurfewCan’t be educatedPopulation/ EconomicsOverpopulation- Not enough resources for the country to support them- 8 million peopleRural Population- they are only farmers “slave”They have no education. They made the Irish basically savagesHigh illiteracy rate- Illegal to go to schoolWont be successful in growing Industrial Age.Permanent Underclass- Irish are considered non- citizensNo 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 1765-1775Push/Pull FactorsProblem with England – They thought the Scots were too nice to the natives.Penal lawsFormation Migration- Money- They have money because they want to get away from England and being plantation ownersThey 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 EnglishAppalachian Mountains, Western Pennsylvania, W, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, N. CarolinaNumbers- 250,000- Go away from WASPs- They have money because they were plantation owners in Ireland.Scots Irish Stereotypes-ViolentFamily- 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 fighters6 years olds were given gunsWomen taught to use weapons they are told they will be raped during their lifetime at age 8Poor- when they first came they were not poorLiving conditions- In “back country” were bad.One room, one bedroom- everyone slept in the same bedThey don’t mind living this way because they are away from the WASPs. No running water, no electricityThey don’t consider themselves poor at allDrunks- there is a difference between someone who drinks and a drunkDrunk- stumbling, incoherent, sexual creepScots Irish just think they drink- WASPS call them drunksScots have no drinking age , they think that parents should introduce alcohol to them.Wasps are prude, women can’t drink, drinking clubsWe outlaw alcohol in 1920sAmericans don’t believe in hard liquor – Scots drink SCOTCHScots used alcohol for medicinal purposes as wellBut 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 potatoThis actually came from the USFor 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“The Great Famine” 1845-18521-Million died 1/8 of the populationThis actually helps overpopulationMore resources, more jobs“The Famine is with us yesterday, today, and always”Trans-Atlantic CrossingFrom Dublin Ireland and came to US – Boston and New YorkThe 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 of the boat.They needed money to buy food. The ticket only bought them onto the boat.“Ship Fever”- (tuberculosis) cough up blood. Everyone coming off the boat is either dead or very sick.Death rate 15% - 20%The ImmigrantsMoney? 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:Poor, unskilled, single- costs money to get marriedGallic/Gaelic- outlawed? YesA lot of them will actually speak EnglishNumbers- Chain Migration- One person is chosen to go to America from a village , that persons job is to go to
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