RE104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Protestantism, The Star-Spangled Banner, Know Nothing
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New york had always been resistant to immigrants, those who were there looked down upon those who were coming. Perception of the irish was that they could never be loyal to the united states as they were loyal to catholic church first. Known as the blacks of the nineteenth century. One eighth of irish people (1 million) come to new york in a ten-year period. Came across on sail ships, sometimes called coffin ships because more people would die at sea than originally boarded. Irish and african-americans fight over the lowest paying jobs new york has to offer. Unlike any other mass immigration in european history. Charles bra(cid:272)e fou(cid:374)ded the childre(cid:374)(cid:859)s aid o(cid:272)iety. 17 cents a night for a kid to have a place to sleep and a hot meal. Children sleeping on the street due to tons of families having no homes/food. (cid:1005)84(cid:1004)(cid:859)s i(cid:373)(cid:373)igratio(cid:374) Very big majority of these immigrants are catholics.
