Immigrant Groups
Part One:
Use five terms listed below in each of your essays; underline them as you use them. Two to three pages for each essay, double-spaced.
Terms: Americanization; “asylum theme”; indenturers; American “Wake”; “push”/”pull”/”passage” (one term); ethnicity; nativism; assimilation; “Great Famine”; Federalist Party; Know Nothing Party; Homestead Act, 1862; Immigration Restriction League; “hyphenates”; other terms that fit into these narratives.
Question Choices:
Your task is first to explain what being “indentured” meant.
What did being indentured mean to those who settled in Virginia and the southern colonies, versus those who came as indentured and settled in the northern colonies?
Finally, use testimonies for each of the groups of immigrants you present.
Define the differences in the “push”, “passage”, and “pull” factors of three different immigrant groups which come to America between 1607 and 1830?
Use testimonies from the various websites provided in the first weeks of readings which illustrate individuals from these groups.
Also, are there any testimonies which present how the resident Anglo-Americans feel about subsequent groups which came to America , especially after the Revolution?
Your job is to describe what makes these two groups so different from one another. Why are the Irish so different from other groups that have arrived by this time period?
In the readings, what are some of the “native” American fears being presented over the Irish presence in America? And by the way, who is Maria Monk? Once again, use testimonies.
Part Two:
Answer the following questions:
1, What does each term mean;
2, What relationship do you see that each term shares with the other in the pair.
Each response should be no less than a page each, double-spaced.
Maria Monk – Samuel Morse
Americanization – “Hyphenates” (c. 1880)
Democrat-Republican Party – Federalist Party (c. 1800)
William Moraley – Gottfried Duden
Puritans – Quakers
indenturers – slaves
Northern Whigs – Southern Whigs (1840s)
“old” immigrants – “new” immigrants
