Hazards
Immigrants in the 1850s needed to quarantine because of fears of this disease, now linked to water quality
What is cholera?
Most female immigrants after 1860 were unmarried and many took jobs as maids, represented by this character from a Thrane play
Who is Dina?
These are conducted every 10 years and contain information on every household and its members
What is a census?
Ethnic neighborhoods like Andersonville, Austin, Englewood, Lakeview, and North Park made this US city the second largest Swedish city in 1900.
What is Chicago?
One of the earliest first-hand accounts from an enslaved African was by this person
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
Tenement houses in the slums were the subject of the muckraking photography of this journalist
Who is Jacob Riis?
This singer and activist coined the phrase “Pie in the Sky”
Who is Joe Hill?
This political group in the 1850s pushed for a naturalization period of 21 years
Who are the Know Nothings?
This settler became the first African American to plat a town when he registered New Philadelphia in Illinois in 1836.
Who is "Free Frank" McWorter?
This woman published a book of poetry in 1919 about the immigrant experience and the labor movement.
Who is Signe Aurell?
A Swedish poet held that these three things were responsible for the explosion of population
What are peace, potatoes, and vaccine?
In Sweden in the 1800s, contracts for servants in manor houses as well as smaller farms were usually this length of time
What is one year?
The American understanding of citizenship as a “community of allegiance” emerged from this personal relationship to the English king, known as this
What is subjectship?
This smallest of the Nordic immigrant groups primarily settled in Canada, as well as the pacific Northwest.
Who are the Icelanders?
This author wrote a novel in 1976 about an African American family’s lineage back to slavery
Who is Alex Haley?
A protest in Chicago turned into this deadly confrontation between labor and capital in 1886
What is the Haymarket Incident?
This German labor organizer and newspaper editor was one of four men who were hanged following the Haymarket Incident in 1886.
Who is August Spies?
This legislation in 1790 allowed free white people who had lived in the country for 2 years to become citizens
What is the Naturalization Act?
The first organized group of Norwegians to migrate together settled in the Fox River valley in Illinois and are known as this
Who are the Sloopers?
This American author said this: “We are not a nation, so much as a world…our ancestry is lost in the Universal paternity…”
Who is Herman Melville?
The Potato Famine in these years prompted the mass emigration of the Irish
What is 1845-46?
This authority figure in 19th century Sweden could own a factory or mill and employ an entire village
What is a brukspatron?
War in Europe in 1798 prompted this reactionary legislation
What is the Alien Act?
Bridgeport was the Chicago neighborhood where many members of this immigrant group settled, after having supplied much of the labor force to build the Illinois Canal.
Who are the Irish?
This lead author wrote that ethnicity is “a process of construction or invention which incorporates, adapts, and amplifies preexisting communal solidarities, cultural attributes, and historical memories. …it is grounded in real life context and social experience.”
Who is Kathleen Conzen (et al)?