For Monday's class please read Chapter Six just up to page 145 and prepare answers to the following questions:
- Why is Daniels ignoring the old notion of "old" and "new" immigrants, and what the heck is a shibboleth?
- What does he say is the most fundamental difference between immigrants in the colonial period and those after 1820, and what accounts for the change?
- Can you make sense of the tables 6.2, 6.3, and 6.4? What do they tell us about immigration from 1820-1924? (define "decennial")
- Why did the Irish leave Ireland? How many left?
- Why did so many go to New England and particularly Boston? How were they received there?
- What kinds of work did they find? Who did they compete with for the work?
- Why was their status higher in San Francisco?
- How did they transform the Catholic Church in America?
- What is singular about Irish immigrant demographics in the years following the famine?
- How did the Irish Americans adapt to and change American politics?
- What's with this cartoon?
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