Applied History Module Six Short Responses

Module 6 Short Responses – Question 1 Which source will you analyze using active reading strategies? Include the name of the article, the author, the publication, the date, and where you found it. Read your chosen source using the active reading strategies you learned on the previous page. Then, summarize the overall meaning and content of the reading. Write your summary below. Your summary should be at least one paragraph long. The secondary source I chose is, "Ireland's New Worlds: Immigrants, Politics, and Society in the United States and Australia, 1815-1922." Written by Malcolm Campbell. Publication information ACLS Humanities E-Book. Publication date is 2008. I found this source through the Shapiro Library. The book discusses what caused the Irish to begin there immigration to the US and how they were received and how they tried to become assimilated into the US. They were shunned for a number of reasons. Being Catholics was one reason that many natives did not like them. They also were upset when they began to support the Democratic party, and other leaders did not like the fact that these immigrants could decide the elections in NY and other states. Module 6 Short Responses – Question 2 What events or historical forces contributed to the Boston busing crisis of the mid-1970s? Name at least three, and briefly explain why you think each one was a contributory cause of the Boston busing crisis. 1: In Boston, the city's small but growing African-American community began protesting the quality of public schools in largely black neighborhoods in the early 1960s. This was a contributory cause because the community brought to light the issues of the quality of the schools. This led to an investigation. 2: In 1965, in response to a federal investigation of possible segregation in the Boston public schools, the Massachusetts legislature passed the Racial Imbalance Act. This was a contributory cause because this Act outlawed segregation in the schools, and also said they would restrict funding if they didn't desegregate. 3: But in June 1974, federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity, deciding a lawsuit brought against the School Committee by the NAACP*, ruled that Boston's schools were unconstitutionally segregated. This was a contributory cause because this was the lawsuit that allowed Judge Garrity to order the busing. Module 6 Short Responses – Question 3 Name three specific consequences of the Boston busing crisis. One consequence was the integration of African Americans and whites in the same public schools. A second consequence would be that there was white flight after the busing began. The white families began to send there children to neighboring schools. A third consequence would be that it began to allow racial tensions to subside, and eventually allowed African Americans to get into politics, and run for political positions. Module 6 Short Responses – Question 4 Describe one cause of the event you have chosen for your historical analysis (keeping in mind that there are many), and explain one piece of evidence from your research that you will use to support this assertion. Describe one consequence of the event, and explain one piece of evidence from your research that you will use to support this assertion. One cause would be theCwave of attacks against the Irish and their views from nativist. Since most Americans were protestant, they did not like the influx of the Roman Catholic faith being brought into their cities.CThe evidence I will use isCThe nativists felt that the Roman Catholic Church was repugnant for its doctrines and because the organization infringed on their meaning of republicanism (Campbell, 2008) One consequence will beCThe natives held riots and wrote racist articles about the Irish. The evidence I will use isCGeorge Templeton Strong wrote, “our Celtic fellow citizens are almost as remote from us in temperament and constitution as the Chinese (Campbell, 2008).”