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**Theme:** type here **Topic:** type here **Free Response Question**: type here Introductory Paragraph **Setting:** Immigration is how the United States was built, and despite some opposition, we have remained moderately open to immigration from many different regions. **Basis for Analysis**: Immigrants moved to America for various reasons, including economic opportunity, personal freedoms, (most notably the freedom of religion) and to escape oppressive government. **Partitions**: The Scotch-Irish before the revolution received much less discrimination then later immigrants such as the wave of Irish immigrants in the early 1800s and the Chinese immigrants brought over to fill a need for workers in post-civil war America **Thesis:** The Scotch Irish early on were able to escape economic hardship, partially because they were white, but the later Irish immigrants were put into poor isolated Ghettos, and the Chinese were exploited for cheap labor. The latter two were usually not able to fulfill their American dream.

**Partition 1:** Scotch Irish in the 1700s Mostly immigrated for economic reasons, including English economic policies Concentrated mainly in the fertile Chesapeake and Appalachian regions Mainly Presbyterian Protestants Settled in sparsely populated areas, so not much clash with existing culture

**Partition 2:** Irish in the 1800s The Irish Great Famine began in 1801, giving the Irish a reason to seek better economic opportunity There was anti immigration sentiment in the US that grew during the 19th Century, especially against Catholics, which was the religious system that many Irish were a part of. -Know-Nothing Party -American Party

** Partition 3: ** Chinese in the 1800s Many Chinese workers were brought over to fill a void in workers for constructing the many railroad projects in the American West They would work for long hours on dangerous work with little pay Chinese were recogniseably not white, which made it easier to differentiate and discriminate Workingman's party led a public backlash against cheap Chinese labor Laws were passed limiting or restricting the influence of Chinese people and their culture on the US -Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 -Later on, the Immigration Act of 1924 -Chinese could not immigrate freely until 1943, where there again was a void of labor

General Information:  Diaspora leads to cultural exchange, welcome or not Anti-immigration sentiment frequently rises during times of economic strife