Native Americans
Newark’s Original People.
the Lenape
The Puritans who came to present-day Newark came from different towns
in Connecticut?
The history of African Americans in Newark dates back to around
1680?
The Irish started arriving in Newark in the
1790s,
These left vast numbers of artisans and farmers in poverty, many left the Fatherland in search of relief and better opportunities in America.
As industrialization and political turmoil?
Unlike the Germans, Irish, Italians and other groups, Jewish Newarkers did not come from one country but from all over..
Europe?
Most of Italian immigrants came from rural cultures in the
South of Italy?
In 1898, the United States seized control of the island of Puerto Rico from...
Spain?
In the 1740s, the first Portuguese came to New Jersey as..
Slave Traders?
the scornful name of the Lenape
The Old Women?
Th Puritan leader was
Robert Treat?
Because of land division problem, the form of labor was
Slavery
The Famine in Ireland, was caused by
crop failure?
German immigrants, who worked in .... and operated many of their own shops.
manufacturing?
The turn of the century brought many more Jews from ....
Germany and Russia?
Italians came to the United States looking for...
work, job?
Additionally, many Puerto Ricans came to Newark from ............. in the 1950s-1960s.
New York City?
As with other immigrant groups, Newark’s Portuguese maintained the strong cultural ... of their home country.
Traditions?
Contact with whites was sporadic until
e early 1600s?
The Puritans left Connecticut because they disagreed with the then present..
government?
During the colonial period, New Jersey was a..
slave society?
They did heavy construction work, building canals, bridges and railroads.
The Irish"
German immigrants put their skills to work in establishing businesses in ( give at least 2 areas)
tailoring, manufacturing, and beer brewing.
Many of these Jewish immigrants came to America to escape .............. persecution.
religious?
Which ethnic group needed Italian workers for the backbreaking labor that had once been assigned to them...
The Irish?
In the 1970s, New York Puerto Ricans began coming to Newark in search of...
housing and jobs,?
Between 1928 and 1933, six Portuguese-language newspapers were published in Newark, including the
Luso-American?
The group of traders that treated them with contempt
The Dutch?
The Puritans “bought” the land for goods valued by them at
$750?
One prominent stop of the underground Railroad was at
70 Warren Street?
Signs were posted on businesses,
“No Irish Need Apply”?
There were a dozen Protestant and Catholic churches, German-English schools, (years)
By the early 1900s?
Jewish families arrived, and the men began working in the city as ...,
peddlers, shopkeepers, butchers, tanners and owners of small factories?
One important factor in easing the hardships of Italian-Americans was developing a sense of community through....
social gatherings and celebrations.
Wedding,
birth, and
funeral celebrations?
Puerto Ricans were exploited for their ...................... and discrimination was rampant.
cheap labor?
Some Portuguese immigrants came to Newark to make money before returning home to....
Portugal?
The Dutch traded with them for pelts and furs, paying them with
rum and guns
Thus the Puritans established themselves as the first European .... in Newark.
power brokers
In general how did African Americans resist slavery
By Building Black Institutions.
The religion central to Irish-American life in Newark
Catholic Church
Names like Krueger meant..
good beer?
People who carried their goods in baskets from house to house to sell..,
peddlers?
Newark had how many Little Italy’s,
four?
Puerto Ricans help to nominate Ken Gibson as the...
first African American mayor of Newark (1969)
Newark’s Portuguese-American population built strong communities in the ...
Ironbound?
Because of government-sanctioned racial persecution, many eastern tribal families were pushed onto
reservations,
White men, women and free African Americans were allowed to vote until
1807
From the mid-1800s to the early 1900s, most Black leaders were members of the.. Party
Republican Party.
He became Mayor of Newark from 1953 to 1962.
Leo Carlin
Newark’s German population
represented about
1/3 of the city’s voting population.
Many Jewish landlords and business owners became infamous in Newark’s Black communities for charging high prices for low-quality goods, and high rents for crumbling apartments. were known as...
Slum Lords?
In 1949, Ralph Villani was elected as Newark’s first...
Italian-American mayor?
On September 1st, 1974 some 6,000 Puerto Ricans gathered in a park for the Labor Day Celebration..
Branch Brook Park?
.................. Congress of Afrikan People led demonstrations and boycotts in Newark’s Portuguese communities to protest Portuguese colonialism in Africa.
Amiri Baraka’s?