Ancestors and Immigrants : a Changing New England Tradition by Barbara Miller Soloman.
 
 

1. How does Soloman’s approach differ from John Higham’s survey of nativism, Strangers in the Land?
    

    
    
    
    
    
    

2. Toward the end of the 19^th Century what factors kept alive the old distinction between Yankee and German American?
    

    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

3. Why was there little stereotyping of Scandinavians in New England?
    

    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

4. What were the similarities in the stereotyping of the Irish and French Canadians in New England?
    

    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

5. Explain the term "a border bird of passage"
    

    
    
    
    
    
    

6. Why did the New England restrictionists feel the southern Italian was ideologically undesirable?
    

    
    
    
    
    
    

7. What were some of the stereotypical characteristics the Yankees believed to be true about the Jews?
    

    

8. In what areas did "the race line" discriminate against Jews?