Cartoons
Irish Cartoon 3- What event does this cartoon show?
what is the civil war draft riots?
This major event led to a decline in the Irish population because of a limited food and widespread disease and ultimately pushed Irish people to emigrate.
What is the Irish Potato Famine
Describe Irish housing in New York during Irish immigration.
What is very small and cramped, housing multiple people, packed closely together with other homes housing Irish people.
A document or physical object that was written or created during a historical time period.
What is primary source?
a source that interprets and explains a primary source.
What is secondary source
Cartoon 6- describe ways that this cartoon displays xenophobia against Irish people?
what is, dehumanization by depicting the person as an animal, holding a bottle, looking violent and drunk, saying that this is "the Irish way of doing things"
Most Irish people practiced this major religion which led to religious oppression against the community
What is Catholicism
Identify two jobs that Irish people did.
What is coal mining, building railroads/canals, cooks, maids, restaurant servers
the ability to make decisions that influence on impact others.
what is power?
movement of people from one place to another
what is migration?
What do the shadows in this cartoon represent?
That the people turning away the immigrants are descended from immigrants
This country's political influence in Ireland led to a lack of power amongst Irish people
What is England?
Identify one piece of evidence of Irish assimilation in New York
what is political power & running for office (JFK)
what is religious influence through the Catholic church
Reasons for leaving a place or country
reasons for coming to a new place or country?
What is a pull factor
Cartoon 8- What objects do you see that represent xenophobia against the Irish and explain how.
statue of liberty, "dumping" of Irish people, person protecting the government building in D.C.
Since many Irish people faced persecution for their beliefs, this push factor attracted the Irish to immigrate to America.
What is the United States did not discriminate based on religious preference
Explain why the Irish targeted freed enslaved workers and other Black people during the Civil War draft riots?
What is the Irish took their anger out on a group with less power in an effort to move up on the social hierarchy
an established practice or custom that is so accepted that the government passes laws to support it.
what is an institution?
the idea of using resources in a way that meets the needs of today without compromising the needs of future generations.
what is sustainability
Cartoon 7- Explain how this cartoon shows xenophobia against the Irish.
saying that the Irish are power hungry and trying to take over political power through imposing Catholicism in the government
This push factor prompted the Irish to immigrate because they were evicted from their properties.
What is there was more land for the Irish to own then in Ireland for bigger profit
Describe ways that the Irish faced xenophobia
What is not being afforded job opportunities, being discriminated against, facing negative stereotypes, not having access to housing, being confined to tenement neighborhoods
the process in which the character of a low income urban area is change by wealthy moving in, typically, raising housing prices and displacing current inhabitant in the process.
what is gentrification
the process of becoming similar to others by taking in and using their customs and culture.
what is assimilation?