Race and Ethnicity in the U S 9 26 11 18th C Bethlehem PA Pennsylvania Dutch community Close together in neat little lines Evidence that they had a very different mindset than other peoples that migrated to the U S They move travel as communities Why did they immigrate Push Factors o Religious persecution and civil unrest o Shortage of land o Forced draft There is a lot of religious debates and war going on Pull Factors o Land o Religious freedom o Economic opportunity What makes them a good or bad immigrant group Bad o They did not want to assimilate o British colonists were very suspicious of this community They do not trust them Good o They settle away from everyone else o They come with money o They know how to get the most they can out of their land and soil Amazing farms o Great work ethic o They move to a place make it farmable sell it to British repeat o Stereotypes o Hardworking o Industrious o Honest o Protestant o Middle class Why should Palatine Boors Germans be suffered to swarm into our settlements and by herding together establish their language and manners to the exclusion of ours British Why should Pennsylvania founded by the English become a colony of Aliens who will shortly be numerous as to Germanize us instead of Anglifying them Benjamin Franklin Some people still feel this way about certain immigrant groups Ex Hispanic people learning Spanish He is saying that German people should become more like the English instead of vice versa 19th C German Immigrants o 1859 Everheart Anheiser is a German soap manufacturer who moves to the U S and starts a brewery His son Aldofous Busch and him partner up o Germans are the first to pasteurize beer so they can keep it fresh in the bottle o Largest immigrant group to ever come to the U S o Over 6 million people Lower Class German Immigrants o Potato blight religious reasons o Lived in urban areas o Tenement housing o Fought with Irish o Over jobs and boats o Work in proto industrial factories o Germans want taxes lowered on wheat beer o Irish wants taxes lowered on corn Whiskey Middle class German Immigrants o Economic religious motivations o Largest amount of Germans from this group o Had some money Upper Class German Immigrants o 48ers o Educated political revolutionaries o Politically active in America o Had plenty of money Location o Mostly in the Midwest o Settled in religious groups o German triangle o Cincinnati Milwaukee St Louis o All different o Catholic Jews atheist etc 19th century German Culture o Kirchendeutschen o Parochial Schools o Vereinsdeutschen o German Newspapers o Eventually became German Americans
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