Friday, November 14th - Period 5 Lesson 4

European Migration & Nativism (5)

+ Large amounts of immigrants

coming from Ireland and Germany

+ Nativism

+ The favoring of native-born

Americans over immigrants

+ Strong Anti-Catholic sentiments
+ Limit political power & cultural

influence

+ Know-Nothing Party (1850s)

+ Result of nativism
+ Distrust of Catholics
+ American Party

Research the following question:

Why was the American Party known as the Know-Nothings?

​Partner B - Facing Door

Research the following question:

Why were many Americans intolerant of Irish and German Catholics in the 1840s - 1860s?

Partner A - Facing Away

Analyze the political cartoon and answer the 3 questions about Nativism and Immigration during the 1850s.

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​Wkbk. pg. 60

Free Soil & Abolitionist Movements/Southern
Defense of Slavery (6)

+ Free-Soil Party

+ Active in 1848 and 1852 Pres.

Elections

+ Single-issue Party

+ Anti-slavery

+ Oppose expansion of slavery into the

western territories

+ Free men on free soil > Slavery

+ Largely absorbed by the

Republican Party later on

Free Soil & Abolitionist Movements/Southern
Defense of Slavery (6)

+Underground Railroad, 1850-1860

+Network of secret routes and safe

houses

+ Used by enslaved peoples

+ Escape to safe places in the North and

Canada

+100,000 slaves by 1850

+ Most Famous was Harriet Tubman

Free Soil & Abolitionist Movements/Southern
Defense of Slavery (6)

+Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852

+ Anti-slavery novel

+ Harriet Beecher Stowe

+ Fueled the abolitionist movement in the

North

+ The evil and immorality of slavery

+ 2nd best selling book behind??

+ “So this is the little lady who started

this great war”

Free Soil & Abolitionist Movements/Southern
Defense of Slavery (6)

+Constitutional argument

+ Slavery and states’ rights

protected by the Constitution

+Peculiar institution

+ Term for slavery in the south
+ “slavery” improper and even

banned in some areas

+Slave codes

+ Denied slaves basic rights
+ Classified as property

Period 5 Newspaper Assignment

• Create a Name for your Newspaper - it will go at the top of each page.

• Pick a topic from:

  • 1 - Settlement on the American West

  • 2 - Manifest Destiny

  • 3 or 4 - Effects or U.S. and Asia

  • 5, 6, or 7 - Nativism, Free Soil or Defense

• Create a news story for each topic and put in your newspaper

• FILL THE SPACE and some stories will require pictures