Immigration

Bibliography: History Fair 2016

Topic: American Immigration

  

1) Secondary Source:

  Library , H. U (2002). TheStatueOfLiberty.retrieved January 26, 2016, from http://ocp.hul.Harvard.edu/immigration/statueofliberty.html

 

 This source was about how the statue of liberty brought many immigrants to America and changed how the rest of the world viewed America. This source helps my thesis because it explains how America impacted in a good way and helped by the statue of liberty.

 

2) Secondary Source:

 A. (2010, February). The Gold Rush of 1849. Retrieved February 09, 2016, from http://www.history.com/topics/gold-rush-of-1849

 

  This source was about how the California Gold Rush impacted the whole united states in a good way because it brought more people, money and brought more states into the union. This source gave me specific information about how America was helped bby immigration and why America was so sought after as a place to live.

 

3) Primary Source:

   Swackhamer, B. A. (n.d.). CHINESE-AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION TO TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD. Retrieved February 09, 2016, from http://www.cprr.org/Museum/Chinese.html

 

  This source explained how many immigrants came to America in search of work and they tremendously helped us by making the transcontinental railroad. This also helps prove my thesis because it shows why many immigrants were in search of a new life in America and how most of them contributed to America's advancement.

 

4)Secondary Source:

Wallace, M. (n.d.). The Fenian Movement. Retrieved February 15, 2016, from http://www.irelandseye.com/aarticles/history/events/dates/fenmove.shtm

    

    This source explained the revolution of the Irish and British and how many of the Fenians immigrated to America.They had a big impact on America because they brought many new cultures and skills ,but also had many fight in the civil war helping America. This helps my thesis because it shows how America was helped and formed by immigrants.

 

5)Secondary Source:

Wade, L. C. (2005). Settlement Houses. Retrieved February 15, 2016, from http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1135.html

 

   This source was about settlement houses which were houses made for settlement houses  were important reform institutions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They helped immigrants and americans in poverty and they provided care and necessities for them. This impacted America because it brought much needed cultural diversity to our country and made America a land of opportunity and land of life which helps prove my thesis of how American immigration impacted America in a good way.