Immigration From Ireland KNOW FOR THE FINAL WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS WOULD ASSIMILATE THE QUICKEST o An individual who married a citizen o An young individual who emigrated from a country whose culture was similar to the United States o An older individual who voluntarily took a job in the US o Individual who was pushed out of his country due to unemployment Why immigrants leave their country except o Environment problems o American dream because it s a pull factor not a push o Political problems o Religious persecution Read and study the film introductions Know what is a key term and what is not Final exam 150 points None of the above Watch the films More discussion of groups More primary sources political cartoons films Look over source reaction paper information Travel over to the US Comparison of groups o Chain Migration Anchor Immigrant Chain entire village sells resources to send one person to the US That man is an anchor immigrant His job is to make money by working then sending the money back to Irish village Process continues Leads to overpopulation When anchor leaves they throw him a funeral because he is never coming back wake An Irish wake is a party o Trans Atlantic Crossing Take about a month and a half Has no food would have to pay for food Usually didn t bring money for food Would go into debt to the ship captain to eat the food Has to repat debt before selling money back Ship captain sells debt to a debt collector o Steerage Class Bottom of the boat where cargo is kept o Coffin Ships Ship Fever Tuberculosis Contagious Cough up blood before you die 15 25 Death Rate Never allowed to come upstairs Never been on a ship before Because they would spread disease Vomit almost the entire voyage because they are seasick o Reminds you of slave ships middle passage The immigrants o Factors of success o Money o Common immigrant o Numbers Poor unskilled single male lter on is female Chain Migration Anchor Immigrants 260 million back to Ireland 1 5 million come over during the famine Chain continues after the famine 2 5 million total from 1845 1921 Location o Ships went to New York and Boston o Ethnic enclave all ethnicity settles in one place o 3 Five Points New York City Ghetto o 2 Southie South Boston Mass Don t assimilate because of the ethnic groups Location Housing o Ghettos Place that is outside the main city limits Cheap housing Where WASPs are not Low income housing trashy houses o Lien Toos Temporary dwellings that are actually outside Lean metal plywood against building and live underneath it Outdoor living WASPs charge people for living next to a building o Tenements 80 of Irish infants died Building First floor is a business shops run by WASPs Built in a dumbbell style Some don t have windows Live in the dark Live above the shops 10 20 live in each apartment Sleep in shifts Some work while others sleep No ventilation One hole for a toilet for all the people No running water Better life rate for lean toos than tenements Infants inhale the smoke Ceilings are black from wood smoke People died when using gas for heat The America that Catholic Irish Immigrated to o Nativist Movement Still exists today Means to not like immigrants and put strict force on them Gatekeepers of America Culture Know what American is and what to assimilate to Need to be protestant Most immigrants aren t protestant Wasps afraid of losing power Run political candidates of anti immigration 2 goals Stop immigration Assimilate the immigrants already here First group to say to limit immigration Most people haven t meet an immigrant No laws passed What is an American Immigrants live in the cities Protestant Must be light skinned Can t be un assimilate able Nativists hate immigrants o Temperance Movement Group of upper class women that want to end to sale of alcohol Same people or nativist movement Think immigrants can t handle their alcohol but whites can Immigrants never adopt temperance movement o Evangelicalism Protestantism Movement of Protestantism that happens in the United States Second Great Awakening About preaching the faith of Jesus to everyone in America Very strong about changing people Same people who are in temperance movement and are in nativist movement Immigrants won t be accepted unless they assimilate Anti Irish Stereotypes o Wasps wrote about it o Cartoons are a way for people to know what a group of people are o How people across the country to know that Irish are bad o Irish are bad o 1 Religion Catholic church is a part of Christianity No Catholics in the 1840s First group that isn t protestant Brought catholic church to America Catholic communion Have bread and wine every mass Transubstantiation Catholics believe that the wine and bread turn into the body and blood of Christ Irish claimed that they ate the flesh and drank the blood of Christ Cannibals Baby killers Eating flesh of Jesus Blood Drinkers Brainwashed by Papacy Protestants said that Catholics sacrificed babies for mass Irish drank the blood of Wasps during the night then used the blood for mass The Pope Lives in Rome not America Considered treason because a foreign leader Americans believe that the pope sent the Irish over to invade America o 2 Inferior Race Irish are an inferior race Black Irish Irish called black men because black means dirty evil Irish are white but called black because they re uncivilized evil Simian low browed and brutish Compared to animals Violent Ape like lazy immoral uneducated Compare Irish to Blacks Associating Irish to blacks make them animals Irish are a northern problem blacks are a southern problem Irish can t be citizens Some people believed that Irish were black on the inside Wolves in sheep s clothing Worse than blacks o 3 Violent Bare knuckle Boxing Compared to secret dogfighting No gloves rings or bells Gentleman don t use hands What Irish do when they get to America Do it for money Has needs taken care of by manager Boxer makes more than any other Job o Food clothes home etc o Can focus on family to send money back home Makes twice as much a week than anybody else New York Draft Riot 1863 Conscription Laws Irish fight for right to vote and better wages living conditions Irish signed to fight in war because they were promised three square meals and pay Send money back home Conscription laws anyone who is 18 and a male is eligible to be drafted Loopholes can buy yourself out of the draft Take name out of draft completely and bribe an official Can buy a replacement if
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