Workforce Diversity

Summer 2002

Study Guide

 

Chapter 6. Emigrants from Erin: Ethnicity and Class Within White America

Use the reverse side for chapter summary notes.

 

 

Describe conditions of the Irish? Why did the Irish go to America?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Describe the Irish immigrant.

How did s/he come to America?

 

 

 

What were they like?

 

 

 

 

 

 

What did they do?

 

 

 

 

 

What was their relationship to the Chinese workers?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What were the stereotypes of the Irish?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Describe the relationship of the Irish to blacks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What were the characteristics of Irish women?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What were their daughters like? Were they the same or different? How?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Were the Irish able to vote and become citizens? Describe.