Reason for Immigration?
Importance
Culture
100
What kind of crisis was Germany undergoing which caused them to migrate to America?
What is agrarian and economic?
100
Which German woman founded the first kindergarten in America?
Who is Margarethe Meyer Schurz?
100
What food originally came from the German town of Frankfurt?
What is the hot dog?
200
Which German immigrant served as a general in the Civil War as well as a senator in Missouri.
Who is Carl Schurz?
200
The Germans are credited with bringing WHAT important part of Christmas to America? (Not Santa)
What is The Christmas Tree?
200
What town in Pennsylvania was founded by Germans?
What is Philadelphia?
300
What war caused the German people to immigrate to America?
What is The 30 Years War?
300
What was the first foreign-language German newspaper written by Benjamin Franklin?
What was the Die Philadelphische Zeitung?
300
Who's fur company was considered one of the first American monopolies?
Who was John Jacob Astor?
400
Where did the Germans immigrate to in America?
Where is Northeastern Ohio?
400
Which German political cartoonist drew the original look of "Santa Claus"
Who is Thomas Nast?
400
About what percent of the Union Army during the Civil War were German immigrants?
What is 10%?
500
What group of Germans were specifically being persecuted?
What is Christian minorities and Jewish Germans?
500
What German invention could haul over 6 pounds over rough roads?
What is the Conestoga Wagon?
500
What was the name of the first brewery opened by Germans in America?
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What is Yuengling?