HISTORY 373 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: New York City Draft Riots, Anti-Irish Sentiment, Castle Clinton
29 Sep 2016
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1870-1890"s: there"s a dramatic internal migration > african americans from rural areas to urban areas white planter class is trying to sell the new south by building new factories and having cheap labor. 4 million immigrants: germans, english, scottish, welsh, irish, scandinavians. Famine fever spread through the irish countryside over the next 10 years, more than 750,000 irish died and another 2 million left for. Castle clinton - new immigration landing depot the bureau of immigration was created and housed with us department of labor. Five points, nyc - one of the first multi ethnic neighborhood in the us (first slum) and also an african american neighborhood. The naturalization act and the social construction of race: naturalization act extended to those of african nativity and descent however was silent on other races experience of chinese and italian immigrants labor, lynching, and the system of white supremacy.
