Primary vs. Secondary DocumentsPrimary Source: a document or physical object which was written or created during the time under study.

• ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS: Diaries, speeches, manuscripts, letters, interviews, news film footage, autobiographies, official records

• CREATIVE WORKS: Poetry, drama, novels, music, art • RELICS OR ARTIFACTS: Pottery, furniture, clothing, buildings

Secondary Source: interprets and analyzes primary sources. These sources are one or more steps removed from the event.

• PUBLICATIONS: Textbooks, magazine articles, histories, criticisms, commentaries, encyclopedias

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I. Settlers moved to the west in the 1850s and conflicts arose with Indians

1. Reservations : areas of federal land put aside for Native Americans

2. Sand Creek Massacre (1864):Cheyenne surrendered, US military killed over 200 men women and children

3. Battle of Little Bighorn (1876): gold discovered in the Black Hills (SD). Sioux refused to leave. Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull led the Sioux to a

victory. “Custer’s Last Stand”

4. Wounded Knee (1890): (SD) After Sitting Bull is killed, Indians leave the reservations. This is the last war on the Plains.

5. Dawes Act (1887): Gave Indians land ownership (160 acres). Also gave Indians U.S. Citizenship

II. Reasons to move west:

1. Discovery of gold2. Transcontinental RR3. Offers of free land

a. Homestead Act: 160 acres of land for a registration fee and a promise to live on the land for 5 years. b. Morrill Act: granted 17 million acres of land to the states

4. Cattle kingdomsa. New farming techniques (dry farming)b. Farming inventions (John Deere steel plow)

III. ResultsIncreased populationImmigration

Immigration to the United States

Pre 1800EnglandGermanyIrelandScandinaviaScotlandAfrica

•Skilled workers •Spoke English •Most were Protestant (except Irish)

•Settled outside cities on farms

1800-1900ItalyGermanyHungaryGreecePolandRussiaSlovakiaCzechoslovakia ChinaJapan •Unskilled workers industrial jobs in cities •Spoke little English •Different religious beliefs:Greek OrthodoxCatholicismJudaismBuddhism

Chinese ImmigrationReasons for Immigration:

1. Jobs Construct RR’s Peddlers Agricultural workGarment working

substitute for slave labor

2. 1849 California Gold Rush

Negatives:Cheap labor a threat to American

workersChinatownsWorked “dirty” jobsOpium densProstitutionGambling

Restrictions on Chinese Immigration

Naturalization Act of 1870restricted immigration to “white persons and persons of African descent”

Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882suspended Chinese immigrationprohibited Chinese from becoming citizens

Geary Act (2nd Chinese Exclusion Act) 1892

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Irish Immigration - 1846• Ireland ~ 4 million people• Major industry is agriculture• Major crop is the potato• Blight AKA the “Irish Famine” in 1845 ruins ¾ of the crop of potatoes

• 1 million die from starvation, typhus

Irish to the United States • 2 million emigrate to the United States by 1854• Lived in cities (NYC, Philly, Boston*, Chicago)• Poor, did not own land• Built RR’s, coalminers, fought in the Civil War• Democrats – feared the slave

would compete for jobs

• Stereotypes:Catholics that fought with others

Bought votesStuffed ballot boxesDrunksAnimal-like (dogs, apes)

Italian Immigration•Poverty•Illiteracy (70%)•Overpopulation•Natural disaster

- Mt Vesuvias (buried a town- Mt Etna (killed 100,000

people)•Division between north and south

- relied on la famiglia (the family) instead of Italians as a cohesive ethnic group Between 1880

and 1920, 4 MILLION

Italians entered the

U.S.

Italian ImmigrationIn America:

young, single men in their 20’sstayed in cities (no farming)construction work (bridges, roads, the first

skyscrapers)began as migrant workers “birds of passage”

Negatives:Catholics (seen as oppressive)Fought with the Irish, Portuguese, Polish“dirty” (menial jobs with little education)Little Italy (clusters of ethnicity)AnarchistsOrganized crime

German ImmigrationReasons to Leave:•High food prices, low wages•Persecution – 1848 Rebellion•Religious freedom

German Immigration

In America:

•Settled on farms in PA or cities in the Midwest

• ~6 million people emigrated from Germany between 1820-1914

•Brought reforms to America• Universal education – kindergarten• Better working conditions (8 hour day)

•Assimilated • Religion• Language (English)

Jewish Immigration Come largely from Spain and Portugal (Sephardic), Russia, Germany (Ashkenazi)

Reasons to leave:•Pogroms directed at Jews in the 1880s (violent riots)•Land and Gold•Modern vehicles like steam engine and RR•Laws against Jews in Europe• Pay to live• Ordered out• Denied the right to vote• Denied right to hold public office

In America:•Skilled laborers

• Peddlers• Garment and textile industry (Levi

Strauss, Sears & Roebuck)•Educated•Organized into synagogue communities – cities•Assimilated • learned English, • reform

Gentile: A person of non-Jewish faith

Anti-Semitic:

Hostility or discrimination against Jews.

Yiddish:A language used by Ashkenazi (European) Jews

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