Transcript Immigration

Immigration
Great Lull
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Seven Years’ War in Europe (1756)
American Revolution
French Revolution
Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815)
Great Britain prohibits slavery
American Population
• Started to grow rapidly
– Why?
• cheap land
• job opportunities
• others were forced
– From Where?
• Immigrants from Western Europe
The Irish
• The potato was the staple food source for
the Irish
• A fungus destroyed the potato crop and
caused the Potato Famine
• As new immigrants, they took some of the
lowliest jobs available (construction or
laying rail road tracks)
• Irish women usually worked as household
workers
The Germans
• Harsh rulers and dictators
on Germany
– Large groups of people had
taken part in revolutions
which failed
– Forced to flee to the United
States
• Many German immigrants
moved west upon arrival
to the United States
• Some 60,000 fled to
America after the failed
Revolutions of 1848.
The American People
• Nativist:
– Felt that the land of
the United States was
set aside for white,
American born
Protestants
– Irish immigrants were
mainly Catholics which
did not sit well with the
native
Know Nothings
• An organized group of
nativists from the New
York area
• When questions
about the
organization, they
would only answer “I
know nothing”
• Had someone run for
president in 1856
Declines in Immigration
• Reproduction within the United States
– Percent of immigrants decreases
– 6 out of 7 people
• Panic of 1837
– Andrew Jackson’s attack on the 2nd National
Bank
– Followed by a 5 year depression
• American Civil War
– 1861-1865