https://padlet.com/lsherman34/9at4r2bufd7fcwvo en-us 2023-05-18 19:50:58 UTC 2023-05-25 14:49:15 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f1ee-1f1ea.png lsherman34 https://padlet.com/lsherman34/9at4r2bufd7fcwvo/wish/2596709287
The Know Nothing Party is officially established after being a largely secret organization. It is based in nativism and the hatred of immigrants and Catholics and formed as a result of the large influx of immigrants in the 1840s.  ]]> 2023-05-18 19:59:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lsherman34/9at4r2bufd7fcwvo/wish/2596709287 lsherman34 https://padlet.com/lsherman34/9at4r2bufd7fcwvo/wish/2596711544 The potato famine in Ireland begins and causes mass numbers of poor, uneducated, Irish Catholics to the Us. 1845 marks a period of starvation in Ireland after a disease caused the potato crops to fail, which most of the Irish population relied on for food at the time. ]]> 2023-05-18 20:02:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lsherman34/9at4r2bufd7fcwvo/wish/2596711544 lsherman34 https://padlet.com/lsherman34/9at4r2bufd7fcwvo/wish/2597858581 Members of the Know Nothing party became violent against a group of Irish Catholics who were attempting to vote resulting in the murder of about 100 Catholics. Thousands of Catholics fled the city as a result and no one was ever persecuted for this event. ]]> 2023-05-19 17:33:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lsherman34/9at4r2bufd7fcwvo/wish/2597858581 lsherman34 https://padlet.com/lsherman34/9at4r2bufd7fcwvo/wish/2597861051 As slavery began to become more of a hot topic in American politics, with cases such as Dred Scott and Kansas Nebraska Act, the Know Nothing Party began to splinter until eventually it reached its end. Though the Know Nothing party ran a very short course in history and never truly managed to grasp a firm seat in office, they still represent a very real disdain that the general population had for the Irish in this time period and the atrocities they incited affected thousands of Irish American in the country. ]]> 2023-05-19 17:36:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lsherman34/9at4r2bufd7fcwvo/wish/2597861051 lsherman34 https://padlet.com/lsherman34/9at4r2bufd7fcwvo/wish/2597869667 This war marks the first war the US fought on foreign soil. The United States gained states. from mexican territory such as California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming.]]> 2023-05-19 17:46:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lsherman34/9at4r2bufd7fcwvo/wish/2597869667 lsherman34 https://padlet.com/lsherman34/9at4r2bufd7fcwvo/wish/2598983881 In the Compromise of 1850, the US admitted California as a free state, allowed for the new territory gained after the Mexican-American War to decide whether or not they wanted slavery, and also left the option open to New Mexico and Utah. This compromise represents the growing tension surrounding slavery in the US. ]]> 2023-05-21 18:48:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lsherman34/9at4r2bufd7fcwvo/wish/2598983881 lsherman34 https://padlet.com/lsherman34/9at4r2bufd7fcwvo/wish/2598988645 The culminating result of the tensions surrounding slavery in the states. This war completely changed the United States socially and economically.]]> 2023-05-21 18:57:28 UTC https://padlet.com/lsherman34/9at4r2bufd7fcwvo/wish/2598988645 lsherman34 https://padlet.com/lsherman34/9at4r2bufd7fcwvo/wish/2601759897 My maternal side immigrates to the US from a small town in Southern Ireland as the potato famine was beginning to ravage Ireland. They are Irish Catholic and poor. ]]> 2023-05-23 13:52:00 UTC https://padlet.com/lsherman34/9at4r2bufd7fcwvo/wish/2601759897 lsherman34 https://padlet.com/lsherman34/9at4r2bufd7fcwvo/wish/2601820004 After immigrating, my family settled in Brooklyn, New York where about 1/3 of the population was Irish as there was a lot of cheap labor needed and those who were immigrating were largely unskilled. Micheal was born in Brooklyn on November 6, 1840. He went on to have 8 children with his wife, Ann Hinton.]]> 2023-05-23 14:33:09 UTC https://padlet.com/lsherman34/9at4r2bufd7fcwvo/wish/2601820004 lsherman34 https://padlet.com/lsherman34/9at4r2bufd7fcwvo/wish/2602181389 The first born child of Micheal and Ann. She was in school when she was younger and became a housewife and a mother to one daughter, Anna Doran, in her laters years when she married Thomas J Doran. She was also married to a Mr. Charles Francis Mortimer. ]]> 2023-05-23 19:41:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lsherman34/9at4r2bufd7fcwvo/wish/2602181389