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CHAPTER SIXTEEN. WHO WAS COMING TO AMERICA IN THE1800s? IMMIGRANTS WERE COMING TO AMERICA! BRITISH IRISH GERMANS SCANDANAVIANS.

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1 CHAPTER SIXTEEN

2 WHO WAS COMING TO AMERICA IN THE1800s? IMMIGRANTS WERE COMING TO AMERICA! BRITISH IRISH GERMANS SCANDANAVIANS

3 MANY PEOPLE IN EUROPE WERE BEING PUSHED OUT!

4 WHY WERE PEOPLE BEING PUSHED OUT OF EUROPE? 1.POPULATION (OVERCROWDED) 2.LACK OF WORK 3.POOR HARVESTS 4.GOVERNMENT CORRUPT 5.PERSECUTION (RELIGIOUS)

5 WHY WERE EUROPEANS BEING PULLED TO AMERICA?

6 PULL?? ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY JOBS LAND A BEETER LIFE FREEDOM FOR PESECUTION

7 WHY WOULD SOMEONE FROM SWEEDEN WANT TO COME TO AMERICA? DROUGHT AND FAMINE

8 WHY WOULD IRISHMEN WANT TO COME TO AMERICA? COULD NOT VOTE COULD NOT HOLD OFFICE COULD NOT INHERIT LAND COULD NOT GO TO SCHOOL COULD NOT PRACTICE THEIR RELIGION

9 CHURHES WERE POWERFUL SOURCES OF HOPE FOR THE IRISH

10 THERE WAS A GREAT PREJUDICE BETWEEN CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS

11 NATIVISTS NATIVE BORN THAT WANTED TO STOP OR RESTRICT THE INFLUENCE OF THE FOREIGN BORN!

12 IN 1850 THE KNOW-NOTHING PARTY WAS ESTABLISHED The Know Nothing movement was a nativist American political movement of the 1840s and 1850snativist American

13 American Party Founded 1845 Dissolved 1860 Preceded by Whig Party, Native American Party

14 THE KNOW NOTHING PARTY TRIED TO…. LIMIT THE POWER OF THE IRISH IMMIGRANTS

15 WHAT HAPPENED WHEN AMERICANS STARTING ACCEPTING IRISH IMMIGRANTS?

16 GERMANS WERE THE LARGEST IMMIGRANT GROUP IN THE 1800s.

17 LEVI STRAUSS WAS THE GERMAN IMMIGRANT RESPONSIBLE FOR INVENTING BLUE JEANS

18 HOW DID IMMIGRANTS CHANGE AMERICA?

19 WALT WHITMAN HERE IS NOT MERELY A NATION BUT A….NATION OF NATIONS.

20 I WONDER WHAT PART OF THE COUNTY IMMIGRANTS SETTLED IN DURING THE 1800s?

21 I WONDER WHY? THEY COULDNT COMPETE WITH THE SLAVE TRADE TRADE!

22 WHAT DO I DO NOW? 1. OPEN BOOK TO P. 383 2. OPEN BINDER TO CH 16 QUESTIONS (1-15) 3. USE TEXTBOOK AND YOUR BRAIN TO ANSWER (1-15) 4. DO YOU ACCEPT PEOPLES DIFFERENCE OR DO YOU MAKE FUN OF THEM? HOW BORING WOULD THIS LIFE BE IF EVERYONE WAS EXACTLY THE SAME! EMBRACE DIFFERENCES!


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