My historical essay’s topic is the impact of the Irish immigrants on New York’s economy of the 1840s-1860s. A secondary source I applied in my research was the article “The economic assimilation of Irish Famine migrants to the United States” written by Collins and Zimran in 2019, published at “Explorations in Economic History.” I found the preview in Shapiro Library and then retrieved the full text by exploring Google Scholar. The article includes the dataset of the United States’ census records that reveal how the economy changed within the assimilation of the Irish immigrants in the middle of the nineteenth century (Collins & Zimran, 2019). Moreover, it highlights the main work areas where the newcomers were involved and explained why most of them were represented in urban locations like New York. The authors conclude the migrants benefited with language and religion similar to the American, yet they lacked skills necessary for many industrial jobs, therefore they remained poor and were a cheap workforce (Collins & Zimran, 2019). The datasets’ evidence describes the Irish immigrants’ assimilation patterns and includes information about their labor and life conditions.
The first event contributing to the Boston busing crisis of the mid-1970s is the Brown v. Board of Education case because it forced schools to abolish segregation at the legislative level. The second historical occasion is the Passage of Civil Rights Act because it provided a solid foundation for schools to achieve racial balance. The third contribution was the Racial Imbalance Act of 1965, as it was the actionable strategy that changed the situation with the racially imbalanced schools of Massachusetts.
After the Boston busing crisis, more than 30,000 students dropped schools, severely impacting the region’s educational rates. Moreover, white people started to resettle from the mixed-race areas to the “whites only” districts considering that is crucial for their safety. Lastly, the financial cost of the crisis was huge for Boston because of the demand for police and guards and high crimes.
The Irish immigrants’ cheap workforce status helped New York’s economy maintain growth through the nineteenth century. Moreover, the event’s consequence is related to the changes in the wages’ rates that included both the newcomers and the natives. The latter were forced to increase their skills and educational level to get a better job and demanded to improve their labor conditions.
Reference
Collins, W. J., & Zimran, A. (2019). The economic assimilation of Irish Famine migrants to the United States.Explorations in Economic History, 74, 101302. Web.