Immigration: Past and Present

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Immigration Past and Present

• Chapter 1.1 Introduction Discussions

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Note-taking Quiz

1. As a citizen, what do you agree to do?
2. What does E Pluribus Unum mean?
3. Name 1 difference between immigrants today than
   from 1913.
4. Name 1 way the American population is changing
   today.
5. List one American value highlighted in the
   reading.
6. Which social institution influences our lives
   first?

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Discussing what you read

• Discuss reading methodology.
• Readers, pickers, or flippers
• Explain to the class how you did this assignment.
• How long will it take you to do the entire
  assignment?

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Nation of Immigrants

• What do people mean when they use the phrase
  above?
• Is this a new phrase?
• How has immigration changed?
• What has remained consistent about immigration?
• Write each heading and explain the description.

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American Immigration
Year of Native Population of Foreign-born Population
2010 87.50 12.50
2000 88.95 11.05
1970 95.27 4.73
1940 91.19 8.81
1910 85.3 14.7
1880 86.68 13.31
Immigration Origins in 1880
Immigration Origins in 2010
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American Immigration

• How could you explain the increases and decreases
  in the number of immigrants over time?
• What factors may have caused the spike of
  European immigration in the late 1880s and early
  1900s?
• What factors may have caused the rise of Asian
  Latin American immigration over the last 40 years?

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Discussion Questions

• Write each heading on your paper. Read the
  descriptions. Explain each description under the
  heading.

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The Melting Pot

• There she lies, the Great Melting Potlisten!
  Cant you hear the roaring and the bubbling?
  There gapes her mouththe harbour where a
  thousand mammoth feeders come from the ends of
  the world to pour in their human freight. Celt
  and Latin, Slav and Teuton, Greek and
  Syrianblack and yellow, East and West, North and
  South, the palm and
  the pine, the pole and the equator, the
  crescent and the crosshow the great
  Alchemist fuses them with his purging
  flame! Here shall they all
  unitewhat is the
  glory of Rome and Jerusalem
  compared with the glory of America,
  where all races and nations come to
  labor and look forward!
• Israel Zangwill, 1909

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The Salad Bowl

• But as the groups of immigrants were transformed
  by influences in American society, stripped of
  their original characteristics, they were
  recreated as something new, but still as
  identifiable groups. The assimilating power of
  American society and culture operated on
  immigrant groups to make them something they had
  not been, but still distinct and
  identifiabletheir transformation did not make
  them all into the same thing.
• Nathan Glazer D.P. Moynihan, 1963

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The Cultural Mosaic

• to homogenize 200 million human beings into a
  single block of stone, instead of recognizing
  that America is a magnificent mosaic, made up
  many culturesI find the whole idea of the
  melting pot frankly very distasteful. I do not
  want to be melted down into a single block of
  stone.
• Rep. Roman Pucinski, 1970

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Discussion Questions

• Which quote do you feel best describes the
  American population? Why? Explain in a
  paragraph at the bottom of your notebook.

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National Identity

• What values do we share as Americans?
• Freedom
• Equality
• Popular Sovereignty
• Majority rule with minority rights
• Economic Opportunity
• Individual Initiative
• Others?
• How has immigration impacted our national
  identity?

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Cartoon Analysis

• Study the cartoons.
• Be prepared to discuss each of these
• What symbols in the cartoon represent immigrants?
• Does the cartoonist present immigration as a
  problem or progress? Explain.
• What is the message of the cartoon?
• What value is being expressed?

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Reading Assignment 1.2

• Explain the two paths to US Citizenship.
• Are all aliens immigrants? Explain.
• Are all immigrants aliens? Explain.
• Differentiate between the types of aliens in the
  US today with an example of each.
• Explain at least 3 laws that have impacted US
  immigration policy.
• How has immigration impacted our national
  identity?