The Emerald Isle
Germany
Anti-foreignism
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Potpourri
100
This was the main reason the Irish came to America.
What is the Great Potato Famine?
100
This is one of the three groups of Germans who came to America
What are uprooted farmers, political refugees, or draft dodgers?
100
This is the phobia that generally Americans had about the Irish and German immigration.
What is xenophobia?
100
This is the holiday the Irish brought to America
What is St. Patrick's Day?
100
This is the reason why many immigrants from Europe came to America.
What is overpopulation?
200
This is one of the two big cities to which the Irish flocked upon arriving in America.
What is Boston or New York?
200
This was the area of America to which the Germans migrated upon arriving in America.
What is the Midwest?
200
This ethnic group received less hate of the two groups who came to the U.S.
Who are the Germans?
200
This was the year the first American kindergarten in Wisconsin was made.
What is 1857?
200
This religious figure is the person that the Irish were the most loyal to.
What is the pope?
300
This was the area of the city into which the Irish were forced to live.
What are the slums?
300
This was Germany's transportation contribution to America
What is the Conestoga Wagon?
300
This religious sect was the reason the Protestant Americans attacked the Irish churches.
What is Catholicism?
300
This specific part of German Christmas tradition helped popularize Christmas in the U.S.
What is the Christmas Tree?
300
This celebrity made a guest appearance in our presentation.
Who is Donald Trump, Alan Rickman, John Oliver, or Will Ferrell?
400
This was one of the first places the Irish worked outside of manual labor.
What is Tammany Hall or police departments?
400
Germans usually had this job in America.
What is being a farmer?
400
This is the policy to protect the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against immigrants.
What is nativism?
400
This party was formed out of hatred to the Irish.
What is the American Party?
400
This Looney Tunes character appeared next to the phrase "Draft Dodgers."
Who is Duck Dodgers?
500
The Irish considered this a great success, given their current pickle.
What is acquiring property?
500
This is the phrase that Americans described the German immigrants.
What is "Damned Dutchmen"?
500
This is the main reason why Americans did not like the immigrants.
What is taking natives' jobs?
500
This occupation of the Irish led to a great irony, given the meaning of the word paddy-wagon.
What is a policeman?
500
This religion was the reason the Protestant Americans burned churches built by the Irish.
What is Catholicism?
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