Edwina Jacobs Applied History

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. Using the active reading strategies, I will like to analyze a secondary source, ''Ireland's Immigrants into Its labor market. The article is by Alan Barrett and was published by Malden, USA Blackwell publishing. I located the source in the library Pacific education. 2005 The article had a lot of great point, it explains how immigrants had to go through so much suffering difficulty before they could be accepted by equal members of society. that immigrants on average, where likely to be have low level, occupations like factors jobs. And education wasn't offer to them, their children had to do hard labor work, instead of going to school. With all their struggles they were able to overcome it all and contributed to the economic by starting business and with their strong religious believes. 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. The reasons of the Boston busing crisis of the mid-1970 were; the first one was Brown VS Board of Education. When the court ruling that segregation of schools was unconditional, and that led to the busing crisis. 2. Civil Rights Act of 1964; the second reason for the busing crisis. In 1964, congress passed a law that prohibits discrimination. This speed up the pace of desegregation. Racial Imbalance Act: The period in which the Boston school system was under court control to desegregate. The purpose was to eliminate the racial imbalance in the Boston school system. Module 6 Short Responses – Question 3 Name three specific consequences of the Boston busing crisis. 1. The violent demonstrations because of minorities 2. Whites had to relocate from the minority’s communities to a larger white suburb. 3. The third was the consequence of the busing and the effect on the economic. 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. The course of the potato Famine in Ireland. The Irish faced a difficult time, an airborne infection disease that destroys the leaves and roots of the potato plant. The effect of the Famine, between 1845 and 1855 more than 1.5 million adults and children left Ireland to seek refuge in America. Most were desperately poor, and many were suffering from starvation and disease. They left because disease had devastated Ireland’s potato crops, leaving millions without food. The Potato Famine killed more than 1 million people in five years and generated great bitterness and anger at the British for providing too little help to their Irish subjects. The immigrants who reached America settled in Boston, New York, and other cities where they lived in difficult conditions. But most managed to survive, and their descendants have become a vibrant part of American culture.