German and Irish Immigrants
In Antebellum America

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Assessment for K-12:

  1. Write a letter from a German or Irish-born resident of Franklin or Augusta County to family in the "Old Country" describing your life and the opportunities and difficulties presented by your new home. Make specific reference to facts you have learned in this class.
  2. Write an essay on pre-Civil War immigration to America from Ireland and Germany that compares your textbook's description to what you have learned from your class's research on Augusta and Franklin Counties. To what extent is your textbook account supported by the material in the Valley archive?



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This module created by Alice Carter of the University of Virginia..