Immigration:
Settlement through
the early 1900s
• http://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=VA7La5JgOUk
• http://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=QOeuMymIezg
Faces of America
• http://video.pbs.org/video/1409020390/
Our British Heritage
• http://dfilar.edu.glogster.com/engli
sh-influence-in-north-america/
The 4 Waves of Immigration
• http://www.preceden.com/timelines/29
989-waves-of-immigration-in-america
• Write:
– The time period
– The "push/pull" factors
– Who came
• Irish
– Absentee English landlords who took all of the
good stuff as rent
– Forbidden to hold office, purchase land, attain
rank in the military
– limited open religious life
– Potato Famine
– In America
• + White, spoke English, familiar with political system
• - Catholic, poor, limited skills
Anti Irish sentiment
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http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/omalley/120/alien/two.html
Questions for the Political Cartoons on Immigration
Go to the site link for political cartoons on Irish immigrants.
What attributes characterize the Irish caricatures in these cartoons?
• Do any of these apply to the perception of Irish people in America
today?
• What was the major fear Americans had of the Irish?
• Is there any similar type of fear that Americans have today of a
certain immigrant group?
• German
– Revolutionary spirit forced out professionals, scholars,
and educators (suppressed media, liberals were jailed)
– Considered intelligent, cultured, and were thus more
accepted
– As well, they came as families and moved to the
Midwest
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+ White; Protestant; educated
- Catholic; non-English speaking
http://maxkade.iupui.edu/adams/toc.html
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/png02
Anti Chinese Sentiments
• http://www.columbia.edu/itc/history/baker/w3630/edit/ch
inpoem.html
• Questions for the Political Cartoons on
Immigration
• Go to the link for the 19th century songs about the Chinese
• What attributes characterize the Chinese in these songs?
• Do any of these apply to the perception of Chinese people
in America today?
• What was the major fear Americans had of the Chinese?
• Is there any similar type of fear that American have today
against an immigrant group?