Immigration reflection

Part 1:
The purpose of the field trip was to learn about the religion of Jews. We were supposed to learn how it started, what they do, and how it migrated to America. In 1654 twenty three Jews landed in New Amsterdam. They couldn’t be religious in public. They couldn’t even own land. During that time Jews were looked down on. The Jewish people fought for America in the American Revolution. During the war a man whose Jewish was first to give his own life for patriotism. His name is Francis Salvador of South Carolina. In this time period there was such thing called a Jew bill. The Jew bill allowed Jews to substitute a declaration of belief. Jews were ever involved with the decision of slavery. The Jews in the north opposed slavery, but the Jews in the south sided with their fellow white citizens. In the civil war 9,000 Jews fought for union while 3,000 for the confederacy. Judah Benjamin is a secretary, but not only a secretary he is also the first Jew in the presidential cabinet. In the 1880’s millions of Yiddish speaking Jews came to America from Russia, Romania, and Austria-Hungary. Some Americans considered the Passover “The Jewish Thanksgiving”. Isacha Zachary is Abraham Lincoln’s foot doctor hew was Jewish. He helped Abraham Lincoln secure the votes of many Jews. I learned about some important Jewish people in history. The first Jewish baseball player is Hank Greenberg. In the 1930’s Jews adored him because he was the first Jew in baseball. In 1938 Hank Greenberg hit 58 homeruns. He came so close to breaking the world record of Babe Ruth’s 60 homeruns. Albert Einstein was also a Jewish mathematician. He was the first person to create E= MC2. Also the first people who created the Barbie dolls were also Jewish.

Part 2:
Photograph: This photo had a picture of a mother and a daughter who are immigrants from Thailand. I chose this picture because it shows a family who sticks together. In the picture you can see the girl is scared and her mother is comforting her. In the photo you can how much immigrants were scared coming to a new country and forgetting about their home country.

Quote: “When I left my country Vietnam I didn’t know that I would probably never com back again. I was just ten years old. I knew my life would begin from this moment.” -Ngoe Nguyen, Vietnam.
I chose this quote because I thought the girl is pretty smart because she knew that it’s a fresh start for her, and that she knew that she should forget about Vietnam. What spoke to me in this quote would be “I knew my life would begin from this moment.” Because it was kind of a cool way to end the quote it sounded like she really meant what she said.