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Identifier	Thesis 1629
Author	Herz, Lorrie A
Title	Immigration to Norwich, Connecticut : a comparison of three Catholic ethnic communities / Lorie A. Herz
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2001
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	During the mid 1800s and early 1900s, large numbers of European Immigrants sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the shores of the United States. While many of these immigrants still came from the European countries that migrated to this country before the Civil War, most of them came from various other parts of Europe. For many years, historians sought to explain why such a large influx of people migrated to the United States. They have also attempted to understand the effects of this new and unfamiliar environment on these immigrant groups. Historiography on United States Immigration offers two different interpretations, the "Uprooted" and the "Transplanted" model. However, these two interpretations are not specific to any one ethnic group or wave of immigration. Many different factors determine whether or not immigrants are either "uprooted" or "transplanted" in their new environment.' One way to discover the different factors that determine whether or not immigrants are "uprooted" or "transplanted' is to study a local community's ethnic history. Norwich, Connecticut is one such community with a rich ethnic history that is worthy of study. For many years, Connecticut existed as a very self-sufficient agricultural society. It remained mostly a rural society from its settlement until the middle of the nineteenth century. The majority of its inhabitants came from English descent and most people refer to them as Yankees. The Connecticut Yankees lived on small farms or among farming communities. Before the Civil War, rural Connecticut experienced difficult times and changes in its farming communities. It also experienced the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution and an increase in European immigration. These factors influenced certain changes in Connecticut's society and economy. By the middle 1800s, this state started to transform from a Yankee agricultural society to a new multiethnic industrial society. Industrialization created a large demand for laborers, which exceeded the number of inhabitants in Connecticut's rural communities. Fortunately, a large influx of Europeans migrated to this state and filled its high demand for laborers. By the end of the Civil War, many of Connecticut's small farming towns, like Norwich, would no longer exist as rural agricultural societies. They developed into busy industrial communities whose residents came from all parts of Europe. The first group of newcomers migrating to Norwich came from Ireland. Eventually other immigrant groups, like the Polish and Italians, would migrate and settle in this newly industrialized city. These three immigrant groups had one thing in common, their religion. Catholicism would be an important part of their ethnic communities especially since they migrated to a Protestant community. This thesis will compare and contrast the immigration experiences of the Irish, Polish and Italian immigrants who settled in the Connecticut Yankee farming community called Norwich. A large majority of these immigrants represented what Handlin called the "huddled masses." These impoverished people experienced similar circumstances that pushed them from their homeland. Likewise they experienced similar pull factors that beckoned them to America. However, Handlin's interpretation goes no farther and' offers no explanation about the immigration experiences of these ethnic groups after their amval in the New World. For the purpose of this thesis, Bodnar's "transplanted" model will be used to examine these three Catholic ethnic communities in Norwich.
Subject	Norwich (Conn.) -- Emigration and immigration -- History City and town life -- Connecticut -- Norwich -- History Norwich (Conn.) -- Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects
Department	Department of History
Advisor	Prescott, Heather Munro
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	48146605
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