Immigrants come to America

We finished discussing the following questions in class:

1. What were the factors that pushed emigrants out of their country?



2. What were the reasons that pulled immigrants to the United States?



3. How did German immigrants influence American culture?



4. Why did the Irish immigrants leave Ireland? Explain



5. Why did some Americans fear immigrants?

Cotton Gin increases the demand for slavery

We finished our class discussion over the effects of the Cotton Gin in the South. Also, during the last minutes of class, regular classes viewed a political cartoon of Immigration during the 1800s and Pre-AP classes began working on their group skits describing the "Push & Pull Factors" during the 1800s for most of the immigrants.