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NCSS Theme III: People, Places, and Environments. Using the documents provided, analyze the interactions between the Irish and their environment in regards to their homeland, the ships that would bring them to the United States and their interactions with the specific land to which they immigarted.

Theme IX: Global Interactions. Analyze the influence of global interdependence with the information provided in the primary source documents.

The social implications that accompanied mass migration of peoples.

The migration of peoples led to intellectual developments not only in technology, but in political and intellectual thought.

GPS GPS 9 th -10 th Grade SSUSH12: The student will analyze important consequences of American industrial growth. A. Describe Ellis Island, the change in immigrant’s origins to southern and eastern Europe and the impact of this change on urban America.

GPS 11 th -12 th Grade SSWSH15: The student will be able to describe the impact of industrialization, the rise of nationalism, and the major characteristics of worldwide imperialism. A. Analyze the process and impact of industrialization in England, Germany, and Japan, movements for political reform, the writings of Adam Smith and Karl Marx, and urbanization and its affects on women.

Often the reasons for migration include the hope of economic prosparity.

With the mass migration of people comes their religion to the land they migrate.

CSS Common Core Standards 5th Grade Literacy.RI.5.5: Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, and problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more tests.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH : Cite specific textural evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH : Determine the centeral ideas or information of a primary or secondary source. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH : Determine the meaning of worlds and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social or economic aspects of history/social science.

Political situations can lead to mass migrations and even to the development of new political communities.

When people migrate they bring with them their art, music, and poetry. This can also led to the creation of new art and music related to their experiences.

Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Project File photograph: P “The Emigrant’s First Letter Home”, from The Illustrated London News.

“Suffer for About the First Six Months After Leaving Home”: John Doyle Writes Home to Ireland, 1818 by John Doyle Their manner of receiving me was quite amusing; one would say you are welcome, sir, from the old country; another, you are welcome to this free country; you are welcome to this wooden country; you are welcome to this free country—you are welcome to this land of liberty. Pray sir, are you not happy to have escaped from the tyranny of the old country? When you would deny the tyranny and give the preference to home, they would look amazed and say, “What sir, would you not rather live in a free country than in slavery?” In short they imagine here that we can not act or speak in Ireland but as the authorities please.

Irish Emigration Database (IED) Folklore, Song, Music, Central Library, Belfast. The Belfast Newsletter, Tuesday, 24 September, 1833, (CMSIED ) STANZAS ON AMERICA. Hail to thy shores, thou patriot soil, Where freedom lifts her banner high; And haughty tyrants back recoil Before the march of liberty. 'Twas thine with lion-might to tear The galling fetters round thee flung, And, victor! in thy strength to dare The feats that bards heroic sung: And with a bold, uncrouching heart, Shame to thy despot foes impart.

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. “What Irish Boys can Do.” Exploring Diversity in Pennsylvania History.

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