AMH-2097 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: United States Territorial Acquisitions, Transubstantiation, Anti-Irish Sentiment
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The basics: first wave of migration (1820-1880, involuntary migrants, before 1840, only 300,000 irish came to us. 1. 6 million irish came to the us: keep coming, with a peak in 1890s. Oliver cromwell invaded ireland in 17th century. Denied landowning and voting rights to catholics: potato blight (famine) Irish immigrants pleaded to the ship captain to let them on the boat claiming that they have relatives in new york who would pay for their ticket. Did not have money to pay for passage. Philadelphia: ethnic enclaves - concentrated settlement of migrants from the same county of origin within a city. A single member of a family comes first, then sends money home for one or more members to follow. Women: domestic servants, tenement houses: tenement houses. More than 1 person per room, pay as you go: urban lifestyle. Regardless of race or ethnicity, people in cities surrounded by sex, drugs, and violence.
