Post on 27-Mar-2015
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
WHO WAS COMING TO AMERICA IN THE1800s?
• IMMIGRANTS WERE COMING TO AMERICA!
BRITISH
IRISH
GERMANS
SCANDANAVIANS
MANY PEOPLE
IN EUROPE
WERE BEING
PUSHED OUT!
WHY WERE PEOPLE BEING PUSHED OUT OF EUROPE?
1. POPULATION (OVERCROWDED)2. LACK OF WORK3. POOR HARVESTS4. GOVERNMENT CORRUPT5. PERSECUTION (RELIGIOUS)
WHY WERE EUROPEANS
BEING PULLED TO AMERICA?
PULL??
• ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
• JOBS
• LAND
• A BEETER LIFE
• FREEDOM FOR PESECUTION
WHY WOULD SOMEONE FROM SWEEDEN WANT TO COME TO
AMERICA?
• DROUGHT AND FAMINE
WHY WOULD IRISHMEN WANT TO COME TO AMERICA?
• COULD NOT VOTE
• COULD NOT HOLD OFFICE
• COULD NOT INHERIT LANDCOULD NOT GO TO SCHOOL
• COULD NOT PRACTICE THEIR RELIGION
CHURHES WERE POWERFUL SOURCES OF HOPE FOR THE
IRISH
THERE WAS A GREAT PREJUDICE BETWEEN
CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS
NATIVISTS
• NATIVE BORN THAT WANTED TO STOP OR RESTRICT THE INFLUENCE OF THE FOREIGN BORN!
IN 1850 THE KNOW-NOTHING PARTY WAS ESTABLISHED
• The Know Nothing movement was a nativist American political movement of the 1840s and 1850s
American Party
Founded 1845
Dissolved 1860
Preceded by Whig Party, Native American Party
THE KNOW NOTHING PARTY TRIED TO….
• LIMIT THE POWER OF THE IRISH IMMIGRANTS
WHAT HAPPENED WHEN AMERICANS STARTING
ACCEPTING IRISH IMMIGRANTS?
GERMANS WERE THE LARGEST IMMIGRANT GROUP IN THE
1800s.
LEVI STRAUSS WAS THE GERMAN IMMIGRANT
RESPONSIBLE FOR INVENTING BLUE JEANS
HOW DID IMMIGRANTS CHANGE AMERICA?
WALT WHITMAN
• ”HERE IS NOT MERELY A NATION BUT A….NATION OF NATIONS.”
I WONDER WHAT PART OF THE COUNTY IMMIGRANTS SETTLED
IN DURING THE 1800s?
I WONDER WHY?
• THEY COULDN’T COMPETE WITH THE SLAVE TRADE TRADE!
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 PEOPLE’S DIFFERENCE
OR DO YOU MAKE FUN OF THEM? • HOW BORING WOULD THIS LIFE BE IF
EVERYONE WAS EXACTLY THE SAME! EMBRACE DIFFERENCES!