HISB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Tyrannicide
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Antebellum immigrant: scope, causes, motivation: push and pull factors, germans: the radical attempt to conserve, the irish: exiles from erin, the chinese: sojourners. Between 1790-1860, america was growing by leaps and bound. Mass immigrants from ireland and china made america into a much different ethnic make-up in 1790. Europeans became stressed of what is white and they want to stay white. In the 1820s, immigration turns into a full-scale flood: in between 1820-1830, 3,000,000 immigrants came to the united states, the vast majority comes from europe (ireland, and germany, also, 10,000 chinese workers went to california. Reasons to leave: push factors (what pushes you away from your original country) Famine: pull factors (what pulls you over to the united states. European landlords are turning to commercial agriculture and into selling crops to nearby cities: they realized that they do not need as many workers and many was pushed off the land.
