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Emerging Immigrant Rights in America

 

The Irish men dug canals and railroads beds. While the women immigrants were maids or worked in textile. The Irish women took over the workforce displacing native born women. The Irish who were poor dug canals and cellars, worked on the docks, served white families, and took in laundry, competed directly with equally poor free blacks. Concurrently, Irish who secured semi-skilled or skilled jobs encountered problems with native-born white workers. .
             4. The Nativism was an anti-immigrant movement in which they challenged small local issues in schools, in that, students should use the catholic Douay or the protestant king James version. Protestants thought that doctrine was more democratic than Catholicism, which made the doctrine the province of the pope and bishops. The discrimination among the group made it worse for immigrants because Americans thought they were taking their jobs. Many nativist's thought that the solution to poor economic conditions was land reform. Many immigrants were dismissed from their jobs in this time. Irish immigrants were basically thrown toward labor unions after the nativist's movement for land reform. Unions gave them a chance to try to earn more by striking than actual plowing and planting. .
             5. Immigrants quickly found that urban political organization would help them find lodging and jobs in exchange for votes. Subsequently, the right to vote helped gave immigrants a sense of identifying themselves as Americans. As a result, Democratic Party introduced immigrant to national issues or national principles, thus, immigrant became involved in politics. By being a supporter most were able to find lodging and jobs in the United States.
             6. American women championing rights for their gender was a cause that was taken to acknowledge the sisterhood in oppression of female slaves because women were denied rights to vote, and were regulated to the home, I deduce the kitchen.


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