1. Opening Activity: Immigrant Journal Put yourself in the shoes of a new immigrant. What things might have made you move from your home? What might you have been worried about? Write an entry in your notebook answering these two questions.

2. Ellis Island or Angel Island? Geography of immigrants City Growth- why do we need them? How will the U.S. change? Agenda

3. Where are old immigrants from? New immigrants?

5. Early American City

6. Early American City After Fire

7. What can we learn from these?

9. Tenement Houses

10. Take a look at this political cartoon. What does the cartoon show? What push or pull factor leading to immigration does this image show? J. Keppler cartoon. Puck Magazine, January 11, 1893

11. Agenda Political Cartoon : Rags to Riches DBQ Check Immigration pros and cons Discrimination Legislation

12. How could rapid immigration be good for the US.? How could it be bad?

13. Immigration Restriction League Why were people afraid of the increase in immigration? What actions did they take to slow or stop immigration?

15. Take out the worksheet we used Friday. Using information from the table on the back, take notes on 3 immigration laws of your choosing. Think about: When was it passed? What did it do? Why was it needed?

16. Agenda Immigration Laws Chinese Exclusion Act S.B. 1070 Tests back If you have a topic for your mini-research, leave it in your homework tray before you leave!

17. Chinese Exclusion Act

18. Assimilation Melting Pot "The mortar of assimilation- and the one element that won't mix "