For 10 points, name this ethnic group whose 19th-century immigrants included Carl Schurz.
Immigrants of this ethnic group were sometimes called "Latin farmers." A group of aristocrats of this ethnicity faced financial ruin after trying to set up a colony on the Fisher-Miller tract in Texas. Immigrants from this ethnic group made up the paramilitary "Wide Awakes" who marched with Nathaniel Lyon against the state militia at Camp Jackson after Claiborne Jackson tried to secure the secession of Missouri. Newspapers written in the language of this ethnicity included the Illinois State Newspaper edited by Lorenzo Brentano and the Watchclock, whose office was destroyed by a mob during the Pratt Street Riot in Baltimore. Immigrants of this ethnicity practiced (*) gymnastics in clubs called Turner Halls. A politician of this ethnicity was usually drawn with absurdly long legs by Thomas Nast, who depicted him as a carpetbagger in a famous cartoon. That Fusionist leader of the Mugwumps from this ethnic group was one of the forty-eighters who came to America after participating in failed revolutions. For 10 points, name this ethnic group whose 19th-century immigrants included Carl Schurz.
Immigrants of this ethnic group were sometimes called "Latin farmers.
German-Americans (or Deutsche)