Immigration

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Immigration

• 11/12/06

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Immigration
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Imagine

• What would it be like if you had to leave your
  home to a place you never had visited?
• People dont speak your language and you need to
  find work.
• What would you be thinking? How would you feel?

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Irish Immigrants

• Potato Famine - Horrible famine which forced
  starving Irish to flee to America.

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German Immigrants

• German immigrants also fled to America due to a
  series of failed rebellions.

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Naturalized

• Naturalized To apply for and be granted
  American citizenship.

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Discrimination

• Many immigrants faced discrimination
• Discrimination The unequal treatment if a group
  of people because of their nationality, race,
  sex, or religion.

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Tension

• Wages were a source of tension due to immigrants
  wiling to be paid cheaply.
• Religion was a second source of tension due to
  Irish immigrants being Catholic.

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The Immigrant