(50 points no links) 1. Why is immigration such a contentious issue in US history?

2. Do you think Boss Tweed and the Democratic Party political machines did more harm than good? What was the purpose of machine politics?

3. Why do you think the Germans and Irish were able to overcome anti-foreign prejudice and become two of the largest and most successful immigrant groups in the country?

1. In the late 1800s, people in many parts of the world decided to leave their homes and immigrate to the United States. Fleeing crop failure, land and job shortages, rising taxes, and famine, many came to the U. S. because it was perceived as the land of economic opportunity.2. Political machine, in U.S. politics, a party organization, headed by a single boss ... as Tammany Hall, run by boss William Magear Tweed (1823–73) in New ... itself in power rather than providing good government, machines have been ... as they did in the marketplace of democratic Athens or Rome3.  The Irish and German settlement in America were different, because while the great majority of the Irish settled in the eastern cities, where they swelled on the ranks of unskilled labor, most Germans moved on to the Northwest, where they became farmers or went into business in western towns.

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South carolina was so angry about the election of lincoln that they seceded from the union on december 20, 1860. they attacked fort sumter later, on april 12, 1861.