IMMIGRATION AND NATIVISM PERIOD 5 1844 1877 IRISH

IMMIGRATION AND NATIVISM PERIOD 5 1844 -1877

IRISH AND GERMAN IMMIGRATION “OLD IMMIGRATION” • IRISH : WHY THEY COME • OVERPOPULATION • RELIGIOUS FREEDOM • IRISH REBELLIONS/UPRISINGS • POTATO FAMINE 1845 -1849 (SOME ARGUE INTO EARLY 1850 S) • GERMANS: WHY THEY COME • OVERPOPULATION • RELIGIOUS FREEDOM (EX: ANABAPTIST, JEWS) • POLITICAL REFUGEES FROM REVOLUTION OF 1848 • CROP FAILURES

Sources of Immigration, 1820 -40

Sources of Immigration, 184060

Settlements of Immigrants • Irish in Northeastern cities: New York and Boston • Germans would settle in Midwest

NATIVISM • FEAR, DISTRUST, AND HATRED OF FOREIGNERS • REASONS FOR NATIVISM: • DIFFERENT CULTURES, LANGUAGES • RELIGION • IRISH AND GERMANS “STOLE” ELECTIONS • TENDED TO VOTE DEMOCRATIC • TAMMANY HALL –NYC • IMMIGRANTS “TOOK” JOBS • WORK FOR LESS MONEY • WOULD NOT UNIONIZE

THE “KNOW-NOTHING” PARTY • • POLITICAL PARTY FORMED DUE TO NATIVISM ORIGINATED AS THE SUPREME ORDER OF THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER • WANTED TO BAN CATHOLICS FROM HOLDING OFFICES • CALLED FOR TOUGHER IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION LAWS IN 1856, EX-PRESIDENT MILLARD FILLMORE (#13) RAN FOR PRESIDENT THE “AMERICAN PARTY” • WON 21% OF THE POPULAR VOTE BY 1860, THEY WERE NO LONGER A POLITICAL THREAT