Pre Civil War Immigration
Identify the push-pull factors for Irish and German immigrants, and describe the impact of their arrival in the U.S. prior to the Civil War.
What challenges did European immigrants face in Northern cities?
Who was a nativist?
What was the main push factor for people to leave Ireland?
What was the primary push factor for people to leave Germany?
Why did some Americans object to immigration?
What impact did immigrants have on cities?
Textbook pages 402-404
“Out of those narrow lanes, blind courts, dirty streets, damp cellars, and suffocating garrets will come forth some of the the noblest sons of our country, whom she will delight to own and honor,” wrote Orestes Brownson in the Quarterly Review in 1843.
Irish Immigration
Irish Immigration
German Immigration
German Immigration