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CHAPTER SIXTEEN
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WHO WAS COMING TO AMERICA IN THE1800s? IMMIGRANTS WERE COMING TO AMERICA! BRITISH IRISH GERMANS SCANDANAVIANS
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MANY PEOPLE IN EUROPE WERE BEING PUSHED OUT!
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WHY WERE PEOPLE BEING PUSHED OUT OF EUROPE? 1.POPULATION (OVERCROWDED) 2.LACK OF WORK 3.POOR HARVESTS 4.GOVERNMENT CORRUPT 5.PERSECUTION (RELIGIOUS)
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WHY WERE EUROPEANS BEING PULLED TO AMERICA?
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PULL?? ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY JOBS LAND A BEETER LIFE FREEDOM FOR PESECUTION
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WHY WOULD SOMEONE FROM SWEEDEN WANT TO COME TO AMERICA? DROUGHT AND FAMINE
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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
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CHURHES WERE POWERFUL SOURCES OF HOPE FOR THE IRISH
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THERE WAS A GREAT PREJUDICE BETWEEN CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS
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NATIVISTS NATIVE BORN THAT WANTED TO STOP OR RESTRICT THE INFLUENCE OF THE FOREIGN BORN!
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IN 1850 THE KNOW-NOTHING PARTY WAS ESTABLISHED The Know Nothing movement was a nativist American political movement of the 1840s and 1850snativist American
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American Party Founded 1845 Dissolved 1860 Preceded by Whig Party, Native American Party
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THE KNOW NOTHING PARTY TRIED TO…. LIMIT THE POWER OF THE IRISH IMMIGRANTS
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WHAT HAPPENED WHEN AMERICANS STARTING ACCEPTING IRISH IMMIGRANTS?
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GERMANS WERE THE LARGEST IMMIGRANT GROUP IN THE 1800s.
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LEVI STRAUSS WAS THE GERMAN IMMIGRANT RESPONSIBLE FOR INVENTING BLUE JEANS
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HOW DID IMMIGRANTS CHANGE AMERICA?
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WALT WHITMAN HERE IS NOT MERELY A NATION BUT A….NATION OF NATIONS.
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I WONDER WHAT PART OF THE COUNTY IMMIGRANTS SETTLED IN DURING THE 1800s?
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I WONDER WHY? THEY COULDNT COMPETE WITH THE SLAVE TRADE TRADE!
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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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