APUSH: Period 5.5 Sectional Conflict: Regional Differences

Sources of Immigration

European immigration, particularly from Ireland/germany increased

What did Europeans seek out when immigrating to America?

-cheap land

-religious/political freedom

-escape from poverty

Where did most Chinese immigrants work?

on the railroads and in the mines out west

How did immigrants preserve their languages and customs?

settled in ethnic communities

ex)chinatown

Nativists

-feared being overwhelmed

-feared job loss

Philadelphia anti-Catholic riots

-two churches burned

-20 killed

Know nothing (American) Party

-favored rigid immigration restrictions

Harriet Beecher Stowe "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

-intended to awaken the North to the evils of slavery

-influenced by the second great awakening

-humanized the horrors of slavery to many Northerners

-convinced people not to cooperate with fugitive slave act

Hinton Helper "The Impending Crisis of the South"

-hated both slavery and blacks

-attempted to prove that non-slaveholding whites suffered from slavery

-banned across the south

fueled Southern paranoia