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Forging the National Economy

Forging the National Economy. By Shanti Hands, Ben Harrison, Brian Hughes, Max Lewis and Emily Tysinger. Moving Westward. Americans started to march westward in search for many different things

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Forging the National Economy

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  1. Forging the National Economy By Shanti Hands, Ben Harrison, Brian Hughes, Max Lewis and Emily Tysinger

  2. Moving Westward • Americans started to march westward in search for many different things • Most of the people tended to be individualistic, superstitious, and not up-to-date with the current matters • By the beginning of the Civil War, the US population reached out to the Ohio River

  3. Developing the Western Lands • soil depletion/ overproduction of Tobacco/other staple crops made it necessary to move to West in search of new lands • trapped beaver, bison, otters to send back east • nationalism led to a heightened sense of appreciation for the American wilderness • movements to start national parks system started in late 1880s by George Catlin Established Yellow Stone in 1872

  4. movements to start national parks system started in late 1880s by George Catlin Established Yellow Stone in 1872

  5. Mass Immigration into the U.S. • Population doubled every 25 years • There are 33 states by 1860 • America had the fourth highest population in the world • Much of the new coming people lived in urban areas • Although there was a high birthrate leading to a large population, many immigrants from Germany and Ireland

  6. Many of the immigrants came for freedoms, food, land, opportunity. There was overcrowding in their home country

  7. Transportation became easier with the transoceanic steamboats, cutting the travel time to 12 days; and it was much safer

  8. Western Movement of EmeraldIsle • Emerald Isle moves West • Ireland in the mid 1840s was under British overlords • People were dependent on potato crops which were rotting • 1/4th swept away by disease and hunger • about 2 million perished. • Fled "Land of Famine" for "Land of Plenty" (America) • Time period called the "Black Forties" • The Irish were poor - couldn't buy land, livestock or equipment • moved to seaboard cities (Boston and New York) • Lived in extremely crowded slums • scolded by other Americans • "Paddies" (Patrick's) did pick-and-shovel jobs on canals and railroads (many died) • discriminated against - "No Irish Need Apply" • Later gained control of "powerful city machines" (Tammany hall) • Many became police officers

  9. The Forty-Eighters • There was a lot of revolution and war going on at this time. This and massive crop failures led to a mass migration of Germans to America. • Carl Shcurz was a liberal German man who contributed many things to American  politics • As the Germans purchased a lot of western lands. • German people were targeted as a large population of voters. This led to many politicians trying to get their votes by giving them things. • Germans also contributed a liot to American culture, such as the christmas tree. • They were advocates for more education and the abolition of slavery. • Many Germans were thought of as outsiders and were not accpeted because they held onto their old cultures and beliefs.

  10. Further Immigrant Conflicts • American "nativists“ prejudiced against immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s • scared of foreign blood as well as Roman Catholicism • Catholics created a separate education system (expensive) • "nativists" alarmed, scared, sought political action • formed Order of the Star-Spangled Banner (developed in to "Know Nothing" party)  • argued for restrictions on immigration and naturalization  and deportation of alien paupers • promoted fiction literature against Catholics • Flare-Up in Philadelphia in 1844 - churches burned, citizens killed or wounded • Immigrants added diversity ethnically and religiously

  11. DBQ • Historians say that from 1790 to 1860, American culture, religion, and economy was changed. To what extent were the immigrants from Europe a part of this change of America? • http://mygermanyonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/dbb_bockbier.gif •      A german style brew drink. • http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~el6/presentations/Irish_Americans_S2_WS2003/foto/Image7.gif •      Racism against irish for talking jobs. • http://image08.webshots.com/8/6/6/5/122560605DQSPCN_fs.jpg •      Symbol of irish christianity. • http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US1/REF/images/usgerman.gif • Dispersion of German Maericans, 1910. • http://image60.webshots.com/60/8/4/94/470780494iXCWbF_ph.jpg • Traditional Irish dance redone at Busch Gardens.

  12. Bibliography • Yancey, Diane. The German Americans. Lucent Books, 2005. • Hossell, Karen P. The Irish Americans. Lucent Books, 2003. • http://mygermanyonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/dbb_bockbier.gif • http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~el6/presentations/Irish_Americans_S2_WS2003/foto/Image7.gif • http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US1/REF/images/usgerman.gif

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