The Germans immigrants at first were educated, had some money, stuck to small farm communities and voted for W.A.S.P.s politicians. These are reasons that the W.A.S.P.s did not originally have a severe “negative” view of them. However, this view of the Germans started to change with the temperance movement and about the 1840’s the Germans were added to W.A.S.P.s list of those that were not acceptable. After the civil war German immigrants started to establish their own companies including creating breweries in America. W.A.S.P.s involved with the temperance movement believed that all things related with alcohol were a sin. The W.A.S.P.s felt that drinking of alcohol was immoral and everyone should stop drinking. The Germans however felt differently and were making money in the brewing industry so they were not going to stop. German breweries changed the view the W.A.S.P.s held for the Germans who quickly became lumped in with the other “immoral immigrants”. By the 1900s this stereotype was in full
The Germans immigrants at first were educated, had some money, stuck to small farm communities and voted for W.A.S.P.s politicians. These are reasons that the W.A.S.P.s did not originally have a severe “negative” view of them. However, this view of the Germans started to change with the temperance movement and about the 1840’s the Germans were added to W.A.S.P.s list of those that were not acceptable. After the civil war German immigrants started to establish their own companies including creating breweries in America. W.A.S.P.s involved with the temperance movement believed that all things related with alcohol were a sin. The W.A.S.P.s felt that drinking of alcohol was immoral and everyone should stop drinking. The Germans however felt differently and were making money in the brewing industry so they were not going to stop. German breweries changed the view the W.A.S.P.s held for the Germans who quickly became lumped in with the other “immoral immigrants”. By the 1900s this stereotype was in full