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German
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United States
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Lesson
1: German Emigration to the United States
Activity 1. Print out and read German Emigration
to the United States. Answer the following questions:
(a) Why did Francis Daniel Pastorius
leave Germany in 1683?
(b) Why did an increasing number of Germans decide to emigrate to
the United States after 1848?
(c) What did John Jacob Astor, Joseph
Seligman, Frederick Weyerhaeuser,
Solomon Loeb, Otto
Kahnand John Jacob Bausch have in
common?
(d) What did Carl Schurz, Friedrich
Heckler, August Follen, and John
Peter Altgeld have in common?
(e) Why was the National German-American Alliance formed in 1901?
(f) Why did a large number of German language newspapers close in
1917 and 1918.
Activity 2: Print out the Chart UG1. You will
need to look at the following web-pages before completing the chart.
(a) German Emigration to the United States
(b) Swedish Emigration to the United States
(c) Irish Emigration to the United States
(d) Italian Emigration to the United States
(e) Immigration: 1820-1920
(f) Immigration: 1820-1978
(g) Immigration: Peak Years
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