https://padlet.com/stochluk/8i5tsi24p944kj8l Made with the best of intentions en-us 2022-06-21 13:08:01 UTC 2025-12-18 14:14:08 UTC hello@padlet.com ericwmichalak https://padlet.com/stochluk/8i5tsi24p944kj8l/wish/2241262553 MEMBERS:

William Altheusser, (father)

Hannah Baer Altheusser, (mother)

Clemens Baer (grandfather)

Erna Baer (grandmother)

Fritz Altheusser, age 21

Ava Altheusser, age 7

Ewald Altheusser, age 6

OCCUPATION: 

Family farm, specializing in sale of livestock

FROM: 

Bayern (Bavaria), “Germany”

MIGRATION TO STATES:

1900, farming business couldn’t compete with rapid industrialization.

You relocate to a farming town in Ohio, where many other German families have immigrated.

Click Here for your family identity

]]> 2022-07-11 21:18:32 UTC https://padlet.com/stochluk/8i5tsi24p944kj8l/wish/2241262553 ericwmichalak https://padlet.com/stochluk/8i5tsi24p944kj8l/wish/2241262623 Welcome to Ellis Island, gateway to the United States for everyone without a first or second class ticket. This is how over 12 million people will enter the U.S.—In fact, over 40% of all Americans can trace their roots to someone who passed through here. 

 

Welcome to the Melting Pot! 

 

You will need to fit in, so hard decisions must be made.

]]> 2022-07-11 21:18:50 UTC https://padlet.com/stochluk/8i5tsi24p944kj8l/wish/2241262623 ericwmichalak https://padlet.com/stochluk/8i5tsi24p944kj8l/wish/2241262884 World War I brings increased anti-German sentiment to your new rural hometown in Ohio. Your children are harassed at school for being “traitors” and “spies.

 

You must learn to appear more American.

 

What identity will you give up to protect your family?

A. Music and Dancing

B. Close Knit and Spiritual

C. Fun Loving Story Tellers

]]> 2022-07-11 21:19:45 UTC https://padlet.com/stochluk/8i5tsi24p944kj8l/wish/2241262884 ericwmichalak https://padlet.com/stochluk/8i5tsi24p944kj8l/wish/2241263174 Despite their earlier troubles at school, your two youngest children attend medical school in St. Louis. They both graduate with honors and stay in St. Louis where they establish medical practices. ]]> 2022-07-11 21:20:47 UTC https://padlet.com/stochluk/8i5tsi24p944kj8l/wish/2241263174 ericwmichalak https://padlet.com/stochluk/8i5tsi24p944kj8l/wish/2241263602 After years of hard work, William and Hannah have saved enough money to buy large landholdings in Southern California. Hannah’s parents move too, but the eldest son Fritz stays in Ohio. You do not settle near a German community in California. ]]> 2022-07-11 21:22:03 UTC https://padlet.com/stochluk/8i5tsi24p944kj8l/wish/2241263602 ericwmichalak https://padlet.com/stochluk/8i5tsi24p944kj8l/wish/2446046987 The new farm in California is very successful. The family uses the profits to support the elders’ retirement in San Diego.]]> 2023-01-16 20:53:43 UTC https://padlet.com/stochluk/8i5tsi24p944kj8l/wish/2446046987 ericwmichalak https://padlet.com/stochluk/8i5tsi24p944kj8l/wish/2447578321 Fortunately, the community in Ohio where you settle has a tight network of other German immigrants. Business opportunities within your ethnic community come easily.]]> 2023-01-17 22:44:08 UTC https://padlet.com/stochluk/8i5tsi24p944kj8l/wish/2447578321 ericwmichalak https://padlet.com/stochluk/8i5tsi24p944kj8l/wish/2447579251 The state’s Americanization Committee begins banning German books in public libraries. The state then passes the Ake Law of 1919, which prohibits teaching the German language in both public and private schools.

 

Your entire family speaks German at home and just started learning to read English.

 

What will you give up so your family will feel safe?

A. Music and Dancing

B. Close Knit and Spiritual

C. Fun Loving Story Tellers

]]> 2023-01-17 22:46:01 UTC https://padlet.com/stochluk/8i5tsi24p944kj8l/wish/2447579251 ericwmichalak https://padlet.com/stochluk/8i5tsi24p944kj8l/wish/2447580719 Prohibitionists use anti-German sentiment to attack the morality of German brewers. Temperance activists circulate literature associating German people with alcoholism and moral corruption.

 

What else can you do to succeed here?

A. Music and Dancing

B. Close Knit and Spiritual

C. Fun Loving Story Tellers 

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