German Americans Four major factors of success money Did the immigrant group come with money Money mobility and educations numbers how many immigrants from the group came over at once Big number WASP backlash but also political power stereotypes what kinds of stereotypes did the WASPs give the group location where did they settle Urban rural east west Positive and negative Early German Immigrants 16683 Germantown Pennsylvania Quakers and Mennonites William Penn encouraged them to come Colonial Era about 100 000 German immigrants Pennsylvania Dutch German immigrants who settled in the 18th century Mislabeled as Dutch Deutsch Good farmers Large families neat tidy 2 contracts moved to the country away from the WASPs Indentured servants 1700s redemptioners German immigrants who voluntarily became indentured servants in the 1700s escaping poor economic conditions learned English and American customs able to become successful after their term of service Pennsylvania Dutch set up positive stereotypes Stereotypes neat and tidy hardworking and industrious Protestant so not stereotyped for religion 19th century immigration about 5 million Germans large group in the 1840s and 1850s positive stereotypes from the Pennsylvania Dutch lower classes potato famine poor major cities factory jobs seen as hard working middle class revolution of 1848 48ers Midwest the German Triangle Cincinnati Milwaukee and St Louis beer industry upper class stayed away from the WASPs not threatening also 48ers political refugees about 10 000 educated and cosmopolitan politically active abolitionists backbone of the Republican Party Civil War 4 factors of the 19th century Germans money numbers location stereotypes
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