The Emigrants

Sort By:
Page 7 of 50 - About 500 essays
  • Decent Essays

    The Mountain Meadows Massacre was the killing of about 120 emigrants who were crossing Southern Utah September 1857.After the immagrants left Arkansas,the francher party ran into kansas and Nebraska territory before going into Utah territory.When they got to Utah the francher part passed fort bridger and Salt lake city.Traveling South west until they reached Ceder city.That city was the last stop before they went to California.While in ceder city the party tried to buy grain and supplies but the

    • 502 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Dbq Seperation

    • 1754 Words
    • 8 Pages

    virtually saving the colony. According to the “Ship’s list of Emigrants Bound for New England,” it shows that a majority of the people headed towards New England were families, consisting mostly of two parents and children. For example, Joseph Hull, a minister 40 years of age, brought his wife, five daughters, two sons, and three servants on March 20th, 1635 (Doc B). Most of the other Emigrants on the ship were similar. The “Ship’s list of Emigrants Bound for New England” is a valid source because it is

    • 1754 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Charles Darnay goes to France and when he gets there he’s detained as an emigrant. When he arrives in Paris, he’s thrown in La Force. Defarge identifies Charles as "Citizen Evrémonde." The officer holding Charles's papers condemns him to prison. Charles wants to know why because he has done nothing against the law The officer informs Charles that there are new laws now and emigrants have no rights Defarge quietly asks Charles if he’s Doctor Manette’s son-in-law as they walk away, Charles says he

    • 559 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    is a New England bound ships list of emigrants. It shows how the colonists were Puritan families. There is men, women and children on board. Each person has a distinct job, which shows that they were wanting a stable society and a permanent settlement. One can also infer from this document that the Puritans were most like prosecuted in the Old World. Article C is a Chesapeake bound ships list of emigrants. The documents shows that the majority of the emigrants were men. For about every 6 men, there

    • 631 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    What I Learned From Class

    • 1348 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Last year I came across a shocking discovery. One that made me question my ethnic background as a whole. My biological father told me that he is originally from Ireland and at the age of 9 he moved to America. When my dad lived in Ireland he lived with my grandparents eventually his mother moved to America; after the divorce. Since his father was unable to take care of him he was put in an orphanage, since they had no knowledge on where his mother was. Eventually, after 4 years he was adopted by

    • 1348 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Mountain men were most common in the North American Rocky Mountains from about 1810 through the 1880s (with a peak population in the early 1840s). Approximately 3,000 mountain men ranged the mountains between 1820 and 1840, the peak beaver-harvesting period. While there were many free trappers, most mountain men were employed by major fur companies. The life of a company man was almost militarized. The men had mess groups, hunted and trapped inbrigades and always reported to the head of the trapping

    • 984 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    must be knit together in this work as one man". The immigrants to New England formed very family and religiously oriented communities. Looking at the emigrant lists of people bound for New England it is easy to observe that most people came in large families, and large families support the community atmosphere. There were many children among the emigrants, and those children were taught religion from their early childhood, and therefore grew up loyal to the church, and easily controllable by the same

    • 738 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    religious factions are not bound to the community and have no obligation for any country. The problem with creating religious factions beyond even the Catholicism, emigrants create strong bonds to their religious beliefs. The bonds of religious factions influence political decisions and policies in the country. Although the emigrants profess naturalization, Morris believes ritual of religions and the banning together on their interests can influence elections sort of mimicking the principles of

    • 288 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Professor Gorman History 313 30 March 2017 Immigration had shaped the United States of America into what it is today. Without immigrants, this country would had never enhanced from the industrial revolution and created an uprising in the economy. People came to the Americas from all over the world seeking opportunity and a change in their lives, however not all of them were accustomed to assimilating to the cultural standards. One ethnicity had started their migration progress through their own

    • 1972 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Iwokacja

    • 630 Words
    • 3 Pages

    was erased by the three partitioning powers, Poles used things like popular culture and literature to remind emigrants about the places they had left while helping them construct camaraderie with Poland. Since Mickiewicz was a citizen of the multicultural state called the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, he was a very important figure for the promotion of Polishness to emigrants. Emigrants passed on their new knowledge to their children helping Polish culture survive for

    • 630 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays