HIST 3554 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gender Inequality, Marriage Law, Cultural Assimilation
Document Summary
Only 151,000 immigrants arrived from 1820 1830. Why would immigrants come to the u. s: famine in ireland, industrialization, better wages, expanding new territory. The scale of push and pull factors: macro-level. World finance, global commodity markets, economies, empires, inter-state system. Exist on a macro-level but have a bearing on how people make decisions: meso-level (middle) Ethnicity, intra-state, dynamics, religion, laws, economic sectors: micro-level. The push and pull factors of the following groups. British: easy cultural assimilation, economic links, growing industry, better wages, room for social mobility, status, crowding in england, cheap land in u. s. High populations of irish already in u. s. German: largest group of immigrants, political strife, feld unrest, inheritance, gender inequality, high population already in u. s. made assimilation easier. Jews: riots against jews in german states, marriage law restrictions, segregation, internal tensions among jews, seeking economic opportunity, middle men.
