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Becoming America Year 2
=Fall Seminar 6= Thursday, October 21, 2010 Location: Medford High School, 489 Winthrop Street, Medford, MA Map

**POST SEMINAR REFLECTIONS** Please click on your grade level conceptual question to post your reflection after the seminar. Overarching Focus: How have immigrants fought for American citizenship, 1840-1912? How did immigrants imagine freedom as they interpreted the founding documents? || ** Grade 5 ** What were immigrants' claims on citizenship? || ** Grades 8-10 ** How did immigrants respond to America's systemic inequalitites? ||
 * ** Grade K-3 **

**Scheduled topic:**
//**Irish American Political Activism from the Know-Nothing Party to Urban Machine Politics**// Christopher Samito, J.D., Ph.D., Boston College and Boston University Law School

**Readings:**
 * 1) Steven P. Erie. //Rainbow’s End, Irish Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics, 1840-1985// (University of California Press, 1990), 1 - 66.

I. Irish Americans and Nativism before the Civil War II. Wartime Experiences III. Irish Americans and the Affirmation of Naturalized Citizenship at home and abroad IV. Irish Americans, Labor, and Politics
 * Outline for the Seminar:**
 * A. Origins
 * B. Know Nothings and the Crisis of the 1850s
 * C. Irish Americans and Abolitionism
 * D. Irish American Responses to Nativism: History and Nationalism
 * A. Homefront
 * B. Military Front
 * C. Impact of each
 * A. Fenianism forces the issue
 * B. The increasing politicization of Irish America
 * C. Fourteenth Amendment
 * D. Act of July 27, 1868
 * A. Political Developments
 * B. Labor Developments
 * C. Irish American reform thought
 * D. Nativist Tensions
 * E. Machine Politics