1. Chinese Free Blacks Germans Irish Mormons Native Americans
Match the correct Cultural/Ethnic group to the description.
Chinese
Free Blacks
religious group; persecuted in New York for polygamy (multiple wives) and sharing property; established Utah Territory and Salt Lake City; Mormon Trail
Germans
Irish
Mormons
Native Americans
Scandinavians
faced poverty in Sweden, Norway, and Finland; came for cheap land, settled in Minnesota and Wisconsin with lakes, forests, cold winters, like homeland; Viking ancestry
had no citizenship rights (weapons for defense, elected office, public education), limited economic opportunities; Mostly in the North, but some in the South.
thousands of tribes once covered the entire continent; by the mid-1800s most had been wiped out; many were relocated to Oklahoma; endured discrimination and loss of land; denied citizenship rights
faced crop failures in homeland; came to California during Gold Rush as miners; discriminated against; denied citizenship because of race; major workforce on transcontinental railroad
overcrowded in homeland; many were either Jewish or Lutheran; often worked as travelling salespeople; settled in Pennsylvania ( s), Minnesota, Wisconsin, Texas, New York; Well known for beer; introduced America to Christmas, kindergarten; largest immigrant group of 1800s.
major crop failure in homeland (potato famine); many arrived poor & starving; stayed in major port cities like Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore; most were Catholic (religious group); took low-paying, hard jobs like washing, canal & railroad building, competed with free blacks for worst jobs that no one else wanted; major workforce on transcontinental railroad

2. Influences on US Culture
Mormon Trail