Immigration II Jackdaw assignment
Instructions: For each exhibit or broadsheet you are to note at least 2 observations about the document and 2 questions for discussion. Prepare to discuss your observations and questions in Seminar format. STUPID AND OBVIOUS OBSERVATIONS ARE NOT ALLOWED BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT STUPID AND I WON’T ALLOW YOU TO BE LAZY!!
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Broadsheet Questions
I. Immigration in the Industrial Age
1. Where did most of the immigrants come from during the 1st great wave of immigration 1830-1860? 2nd Great wave 1860-1904? 3rd Great wave 1904-1914?
2. How did the Old Immigrants (up to 1890) differ from the New Immigrants (1890-1917)? Why did they have difficulty assimilating?
3. Why did so many Europeans seek to leave?
4. How did technology improve the voyage of these European immigrants?
5. Why did these immigrants come to American?
6. What Americans supported open unrestricted immigration? Why?
7. What Americans opposed immigration and wanted to restrict it? Why?
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II. Northern Europeans: A Continuing Stream
1. What ethnicity came to America in the most numbers in the 1880s?
2. What were the push/pull factors for German Immigration?
3. What were the Push/Pull factors for English Immigration?
4. What were the Push/Pull factors for Irish Immigration?
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III. Asians: The Chinese
1. Explain the Push/Pull factors for Chinese Immigration.
2. How did they differ from most previous/other immigrants?
3. How did the building of the Transcontinental RR affect the Chinese? How did its completion affect the Chinese?
4. How were the Chinese affected by Nativism?
5. In what ways were Chinese Americans discriminated against?
6. How did Chinese Americans respond to this discrimination?
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IV. Asians: The Japanese
1. Explain the Push/Pull factors of Japanese Immigration to the United States.
2. What was the 1790 Naturalization Act? How did it affect Japanese?
3. How did the Japanese government affect the quality of life of Japanese immigrants to America?
4. How did Nativist prejudice affect Japanese in America?
5. Where did most Japanese immigrate?
6. “Yellow Peril” ??
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V. Italians and Mediterranean Peoples
1. How was Italy affected by Italian migration to foreign shores.
2. Explain the Push/Pull factors for Italian immigration.
3. “Birds of Passage”??
4. If Italians had been contracted for labor, what did they have to remember at Ellis Island after 1885?
5. Where did most Italians immigrating to the U.S. settle?
6. “Ethnic Enclaves”??
7. What part did religion play in Mediterranean immigration experience?
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