For Monday's class, please read Chapter Six just up to page 145 and prepare answers to the following questions:
- Why is Daniels ignoring the old notion of "old" and "new" immigrants, and what the heck is a shibboleth?
- What does he say is the most fundamental difference between immigrants in the colonial period and those after 1820, and what accounts for the change?
- Can you make sense of the tables 6.2, 6.3, and 6.4? What do they tell us about immigration from 1820-1924? (define "decennial")
- Why did the Irish leave Ireland? How many left?
- Why did so many go to New England and particularly Boston? How were they received there?
- What kinds of work did they find? Who did they compete with for the work?
- Why was their status higher in San Francisco?
- How did they transform the Catholic Church in America?
- What is singular about Irish immigrant demographics in the years following the famine?
- How did the Irish Americans adapt to and change American politics?
- What's with this cartoon?
For Wednesday's class, please read the rest of Chapter Six and prepare written answers to the following questions:
- How did the number of German immigrants compare to the number of Irish immigrants?
- What were the push and pull factors for German immigrants?
- What can you say about German American involvement in American politics?
- Contrast German settlement patterns and occupations to those of the Irish.
- Who was more likely to learn English and adopt American ways, German men or women? Why?
- What caused friction between German Americans and their neighbors? (list three things)
- What caused divisions among German Americans?
- How did German Jews impact the American Jewish community and what you wear?
- Did German Jews enter different occupations than other German immigrants?
- How did German Americans try to maintain their German culture in America? How did it work out?
- Why did Scandinavians immigrate to America?
- Why do we have so much data about Swedes and what does that data tell us about the intelligence of immigrants?
- Are ethnic enclaves a good or bad thing?
- What can you say about Danish migration and the Mormon Church?
- Why does Daniels say that the notion of an "Old Immigration" is bunk?
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