1. Do Now: Graph Analysis Answer the questions about the graph.
When does this graph show spikes in immigration (list all years that apply)?
Why could this be?
When is there a dip in immigration?

2. The Big Question: How did we all get here?

3. A Brief History of US Immigration/Migration
SWABT describe major events in the history of US immigration and migration.

4. How it all began… 1492: The “discovery” of America by Europeans
Columbus landed in Hispaniola – European conquest and genocide of Native Americans began

5. 1607: Jamestown and 1620: Plymouth – the early English Settlers
English settled Jamestown to find gold in 1607 and Plymouth in 1620 for religious freedom (Pilgrims)
Jamestown – the first permanent European settlement in the New World

6. The Pilgrims
Pilgrims came on the Mayflower and later settled Plymouth Colony
Pilgrims conflicted with the Wampanoag Native Americans, but they also received important survival tips. How does this picture depict their relations?

7. 1692: African Slave Trade Begins
Largest example of forced migration in US history
Millions of Africans were stolen and trafficked to Europe and the Americas for the next 100+ years…

8. Diagram of an African slave ship
printed in Thomas Clarkson, The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the Slave-Trade by the British Parliament, Vol. 2 (London, 1808). The Gilder Lehrman Collection.

9. 1820’s – 1860’s: First Wave of Immigrants
Wide-spread wave of immigration from Northern and Western Europe (i.e. England, Germany, Scotland, Ireland)

10. 1838: Trail of Tears
Forced relocation of Cherokee , Creek, Seminole, and Chocktaw from their homeland to Indian Territory in Oklahoma

11. Trail of Tears
Mass forced migration of Native Americans

12. 1863: Emancipation!
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation frees the slaves, technically (see note).
Note: Slavery does not actually end until the Confederacy (south) concedes to the Union (north) ending the Civil War in 1865

13. 1880 – 1910’s:Second Wave of Immigration
More of a flood than a wave
2cd and largest wave of European immigration
From Southern and Eastern Europe
Slavic Immigrants

14. Immigration Act of 1924 Immigration Act limits who can come to America
Establishes quotas, or a certain number of immigrants from each country

15. 1910’s – 1930’s: The Great Migration
Mass migration of African Americans from the rural South to Northern cities
(i.e. Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh)

16. Immigration Act of 1965 Ends quotas
Immigration of Asians* and Latin Americans intensifies
President Lyndon Johnson signs the bill into law

17. 2001: September 11 Attacks
Terrorist attack on World Trade Center and the Pentagon
As a result, American hostility against immigrants (esp. from Middle East) intensifies

18. Exit Slip: Answer the questions on a separate sheet of paper
Name the two earliest English settlements in America.
What was the largest example of forced migration in U.S. history?
Where did immigrants come from in the first and second waves of immigration?
Which event marked the massive relocation of several Native American tribes?
Who was moving during the Great Migration and where were they going?