Be Prepared!!! Pick-up the notes from the side table and staple! Take out yesterday’s assignment (SALES AD)
Dec 16, 2015
Be Prepared!!! Pick-up the notes from the side table and staple!
Take out yesterday’s assignment (SALES AD)
Laborers worked longer hours for lower wages.
Mass Production
Skilled Workers Proud
Creative
Management Position Families
Whistle
Most factories were without heating
systems or windows
Accidents
Wages Organize
Trade Unions
Artisans in each trade united
Shorter Workday
Higher Wages
Better Working
Conditions
Strike
Workers refuse to do their jobs
Ten-Hour Right
Replaced Demands
Women earned less money then men did. Union leaders did not want women in their ranks.
Build Canals Build Bridges
Lower Stealing
Replaced
Distrust
A political party created because of the hostilities felt toward immigrants. Members of the party
were anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant.
Nativists
Native White
“Americans Must Rule America”
Servants in Private Homes
Political Cartoons
Directions: Below are 6 political cartoons depicting the feelings many white, native-born Americans had toward immigrants from Ireland and other European countries.
Use the political cartoons to answer the questions.
1. The man on the right is carrying a box marked “Ballot,” what is this cartoon implying Irish immigrants are doing?
2. The man on the left is representing someone from the Know-Nothing Party. What action does this cartoon suggest Americans should take against immigrants?
3. Many Irish families fled Ireland following famine. What does this cartoon suggest about Irish immigrants?
4. During the mid-1800s, Ireland was under British rule. Great Britain would pay for the transportation of impoverished Irish immigrants from Ireland to the United States. Why do you think Great Britain was doing that?
5. This cartoon depicts an Irishman. What can you determine from this picture about the behavior of Irish immigrants?
6. The Irish immigrant is lighting the powder keg he is sitting on top of. What might that represent about the effects immigration has had on the north in the 1800s?
7. This cartoon makes a comparison between the North and the South in the 1840s. Who does the cartoon depict?
8. Drawing from your prior knowledge, what might this political cartoon be saying about Irish Americans in comparison to African Americans?
9. In this cartoon, what might you understand about the treatment of Irish Americans as they are depicted by the “wild beast”?
10. The people outside of the cage represent Native-born Americans. How does this cartoon depict native-born people?
11. Describe this cartoon. What does it imply about Europe and the United States?
Freed Discrimination
Trouble Jobs
Competition
A policy or attitude that denies equal rights to certain groups of people