Daily Lesson 25.5 Discrimination against Immigrants

PA Standard: CC.8.5.11-12.A: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, connecting insights gained from specific details to an understanding of the text as a whole.

Objective: To understand the dominant nativist feeling about Immigrants during the mid-late 1800s.

Bellringer/Warm Up: Read the following two quotes from famous poets about America during the 1800s. Answer the questions that follow:

“Take Christians, Mohawks, democrats and all

From the rude wigwam to the congress-hall,

From the savage, whether slav’d or free,

To the man the civilized, less tame then he, --

‘Tis one dull chaos, one infertile strife

Betwixt half-polished and the half-barbarous life,

Where every ill the ancient world could brew

Is mixed with every grossness of the new.” - Thomas Moore

1) Who is this passage about?

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2) How does Moore feel about the people in this passage? Give evidence.

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3) What does he say is happening to the people?

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“Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” - Emma Lazarus

1) How does the author describe immigrants in this passage?

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2) How does Emma suggest that the immigrants will be received?

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3) Why do you think that Emma described the door as “golden”?

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4) Compare/Contrast Thomas’s poem to Emma’s. How do they feel about the United States?

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Below are some cartoons that appeared in newspapers from the mid-1800s.

Source: Harper’s Weekly, 1899. Artist Unknown, Misusing Darwin’s science theories as a basis, the idea of the Irish as less than fully white persisted. This 1899 cartoon showing the Irish stereotype as less evolved, presented as scientific fact 11 years after Nast’s last cartoon was published by Harper’s. Source: Wikipedia Commons

1) Look at the picture and read the text underneath. What “race” do they suggest that the Irish were once a part of?

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2) How do they describe the Irish Iberian?

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3) Who do you think probably published this image, and what was their motive (reason) behind publishing it?

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1) Look at the picture and read the text underneath. Tell me something about the picture.

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2) Who is carrying the Irish man?

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3) Who do you think probably published this image, and what was their motive (reason) behind publishing it? What stereotype does the publisher mean to imply by the image?

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1) Look at the picture and read the text underneath. Tell me something about the picture.

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2) Why do you think that the Irish might be doing this?

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3) Who do you think probably published this image, and what was their motive (reason) behind publishing it? What stereotype does the publisher mean to imply by the image?

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1) Look at the picture and read the text underneath. Who are the Irish in the picture? How are they drawn?/ What do they resemble?

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2) Why do you think that the Irish might be doing this?

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3) Who do you think probably published this image, and what was their motive (reason) behind publishing it? What stereotype does the publisher mean to imply by the image?

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1) Look at the picture and be sure to read the words. What are the two people sitting on?

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2) Where does the scale indicate that you might find these people?

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3) Who do you think probably published this image, and what was their motive (reason) behind publishing it? What stereotype does the publisher mean to imply by the image?

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1) Look at the picture and be sure to read the words. Where is the Irish person in the picture?

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2) What does the word “assimilation” mean?

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3) Who do you think probably published this image, and what was their motive (reason) behind publishing it? What stereotype does the publisher mean to imply by the image?

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2) Look at the pictures and be sure to read all the words. What is “industry”?

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2) What four types of “industries” does this cartoon say that the Irish are involved in?

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3) Who do you think probably published this image, and what was their motive (reason) behind publishing it? What stereotype does the publisher mean to imply by the image?

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Reflection: Putting it all together. Write a short paragraph summarizing the way society in the 1800s viewed Irish Americans. Do you think that present-day society views Irish Americans in the same way? Why/Why not?

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