1 gen 1800 anni - German Immigration

Descrizione:

Pushed out (of Germany)
• Social and economic dislocation
• Revolutionary period (1830-1848)
• Religious intolerance

Pulled in
• 90% chose the U.S.
• Religious tolerance
• Opportunity


Germans have more money than the Irish, and can settle in states they didn't land in
• Irish on coast, German in-land

Why Germans didn't face as much descrimination:
• Farmers (spread-out population, no job "stealing")
– Moved to Midwest
• Came with money
• Liberals
– Supporters of deocracy
– Beer drinking in Temperance Era
• Pacifists
• Abolitionists
• Educated ("Kindergarten")



WORLD WAR I
Spike in Anti-German Sentiment (language and culture)

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