The cause of various new forms of entertainment and recreation.
What is free time?
100
The cause of a wave of Irish immigrants to the US in the nineteenth century.
What is The Potato Famine
100
The common characteristic of German immigrants to the US in the nineteenth century that set them apart from other immigrants and helped establish them as a prosperous people?
What is skilled?
100
The group that continued to come to the US in large numbers during the nineteenth century.
Who are the British?
100
The Anti-Catholic and Anti-Immigration party that formed in the nineteenth century.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
200
How much of the adult population in the US drank at least four ounces of liquor daily.
What is 3/4?
200
The sentiments of hatred that much of the US had for the Irish immigrants.
What is anti-Irish prejudice?
200
The major influence that German immigrants had on society in terms of diversity.
What is religion?
200
What group was largely made up of skilled workers and professionals?
Who are the British?
200
The main basis and cause of formation of the Know-Nothing party.
What is Anti-Catholicism/Anti-Immigration?
300
When dogs and roosters are trained and forced to fight as a means of entertainment.
What are blood sports? (Cockfighting and Dogfighting works too)
300
The group that most hated the Irish.
Who are African Americans?
300
The specific denomination of Germans that immigrated to the US in massive numbers.
Who are the Jewish?
300
The Asian nation from which many immigrants to the US during the mid-1800s.
What is China?
300
The cause of the decline of interest in the Know-Nothing Party.
What is slavery?
400
The most popular form of entertainment in the first half of the nineteenth century.
What is theatre?
400
The practice encouraged and spread by the Irish, that eventually became the largest denomination in the United States.
What is Catholicism?
400
The difference between the areas settled that set Germans apart from Irish.
What is rurality?
400
The European nation from which many immigrants to the US in the mid-1800s came.
What is Scandinavia?
400
The amount of seats a prominent Anti-Immigration/Anti-Catholic party won in Congress in the elections of 1854.
What is 40 seats?
500
Plays in which whites dressed up as African Americans and engaged in crude, racist jokes and acts.
What is minstrelsy?
500
The man that became a hero for the Irish, and won the presidency due to the massive amount of Irish voters.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
500
Blue jeans, Quaker Oats, Steinway pianos, Gyms, and Kindergartens.
What is German innovations/influences on US culture?
500
The group of people that settled northern parts of the US, in Minnesota and Wisconsin, because the climate reminded them of home.
Who are Scandinavians?
500
One of the three regions in which a prominent Anti-Catholic and Anti-Immigrant group became very powerful.
What is New England?
What is New York?
What is Maryland?