Looking at New Irish peasant immigrants and the free Blacks in large cities in the north in the last decades before the Civil War, compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages each group had trying to lead successful lives?

There are 5 questions. Each response should include a separate introduction, body of supporting paragraphs and conclusion for each question. You will need to cite your sources. 1. Looking at New Irish peasant immigrants and the free Blacks in large cities in the north in the last decades before the Civil War, compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages each group had trying to lead successful lives? 2. Discuss the reasons why Jew left Russia and Eastern Europe to come to the United States in the decades before the World War I. To what extend does it seem different from that of the Irish, Italians, Japanese and Chinese? Describe obstacles faced by Jewish immigrants in their efforts to assimilate themselves into the fabric of American national life? 3. Why, and in ways, did Blacks experience a new sense of racial pride once they arrived in America’s northern industrial cities during and after World War I? Compare their experience with that of the Mexican immigrants in that era? 4. Compare the arguments used to restrict immigration today to those made in the 1920’s and the 1850’s. What do these arguments express about American anxieties and values? To what extent are such fears rooted in the economy and to what extent are they cultural? 5. Identify the impact of the World War II on Black, Mexican, Native American, Chinese and Japanese people. In what ways was their experience common, and in what ways was it different? Discuss and weigh possible reasons?