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Immigrants
Irish Immigration
Immigration Journey
Urban Problems
Opportunities
100
20 million
What is the amount of European Immigrants?
100
The Potato Famine.
What is the reason the Irish immigrated to the U.S.?
100
Steerage.
What is the manner in which most immigrants came to the U.S.?
100
Multifamily urban dwellings, are overcrowded and unsanitary.
What are Tenements?
100
Growth of cities.
What is Urbanization?
200
Lack of farm land.
What is population Growth?
200
Horribly and with great hate.
What is the treatment the Irish received when they arrived in America?
200
Chief immigration station on the east coast.
What is Ellis Island?
200
Limited water, wood houses, candles, kerosene heaters.
What are fire hazards?
200
Assimilate people into main culture.
What is the Americanization Movement?
300
300,000 arrive.
Who are the Chinese?
300
African Americans
Who are the people the Irish were compared to?
300
Chief immigration station on the west coast.
What is Angel Island?
300
Manure, open gutters, factory smoke, poor trash collection.
What is the street conditions in most major cities?
300
Decreased need for laborers.
What is the evolution of farm technology?
400
1910.
What is the year Mexicans fled political turmoil?
400
Worthless.
What is the value the Irish had in the eyes of the Americans?
400
Find work, home, learn new ways.
What is starting a new life in America?
400
Too small to be effective.
What are early police forces?
400
Found segregation, discrimination in North too.
Who are African Americans?
500
Drew Mexican Farmers.
What is the National Reclamation Act?
500
Fist raised high in the air in defiance.
What is the Irish Declaration of Independence?
500
Ethnic communities form.
What is seeking people who share cultural values, religion, language?
500
By 1908
When did the discovery of how to clean and filter water before it reaches the consumer occur?
500
John Green.
Who is the host of Crash Course U.S. History?