Today we're going to present. Somehow our group got picked first.. So we gotta go.
We finished ours, and I'd say that we did pretty good.. Hoch seemed impressed. Kinda.
Okay, now it's Luke's group.
This is over Chapter 7:
-Immigration & Urbanization
Immigrants came to the US for push-pull factors. They wanted better agriculture, crops, jobs, money, and freedom. Whenever they came here, there was a big growth in population. Some of them were failures and starving so they came to America. There was religious and political chaos. Their revolutions also didn't work out so they came to the US, this was true for the Germans.
Pull factors were freedom to practice what they please. Economic opportunities. The US had more land which helped them to get away from the over crowding in their own countries.
In Ireland they were mostly catholic the potato famine caused them to immigrate to the US. the Irish lived in cities like New York, Boston, Baltimore.
Early 1800's New York's population went from 60,489 to 202,589 mostly because of immigrants coming to the city.
Most immigrants got sent back to where they came from whenever they got caught being here illegally. People had to take a test to see if they could come in and had to be able to read 40 words in English to also determine whether or not they could come into the US.
Immigrants got here by ships, trains, cars, and any other way that they can smuggle themselves into the country to get their freedom.
The cities grew so quickly because of Industrial Expansion people needed money and farms weren't paying enough. People worked in factories or made clothing and women were teachers.
Cities faced problems like noise, air pollution, loss of jobs. Children were put into dangerous environments and women had no political rights, Increased demand for products.
To relieve stress, people would go out into the streets and sing, today people still do so but usually for money and not to relieve stress, some for both.
A group that controls the activities of a political party; Political Machine. Boss Tweed was a boss of a political machine. Apparently, he stole a lot of money.
In the 1850's - 1940's corruption was brought to the Gov. The people killed the second president which caused the pendleton of 1812, which caused the Civil Services Commission this gave them jobs according to loyalty.
Laws that came about to reform Gov; There was a long process to bring the US to a final. There was a lot that had to be done after all the immigrants got here to be able to bring our country back together because of all the changes that immigration brought on.
They were reform presidents because a lot of change was made and they expanded cities and increased businesses.
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