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= Introduction - Student Guide = = Nativism Then and Now: The Irish Immigrant Experience in the late 1800's and The Immigrant Experience Today. =

Unit Essential Question:
How did (does) immigration affect American conceptions of “We the People?

Lesson Essential Questions:
How did natives view and respond to Irish immigration to America? What is Nativism? Does Nativism exist today in the 21st Century?

What is the essence of Nativism? and does Nativism exist today?

You have already identified the Push factors and Pull factors examining why Irish immigrants left Ireland and what allured Irish immigrants to move to the US in the 1840’s. You have a Push-Pull Graphic Organizer completed.
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