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3  http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03 /10/us/20090310-immigration-explorer.html http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03 /10/us/20090310-immigration-explorer.html  As a class—  What trends do we expect to see?  How can we use this map to demonstrate those trends?

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6  Homestead Act  Surge in factory jobs  Religious discrimination  Famine  Land shortages  Political persecution  Agricultural problems  Railroad jobs  Pull  Push  Pull

7  Scarce farming land  Population crowding  Scare industrial jobs  Gold Rush  Hawaiian plantation jobs  Relatively high wages  Annexation of Hawaii  National Reclamation Act  Push  Pull

8 “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breath free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

9  Ellis Island:  http://youtu.be/5rredHTyKaQ http://youtu.be/5rredHTyKaQ  Angel Island:  http://youtu.be/cW6f96SgknY http://youtu.be/cW6f96SgknY

10  America was the great “melting pot”  Nativism—overt favoritism toward native- born Americans  Favor the “right” immigrant groups  Attempt to restrict immigration  Anti-Asian Sentiment  Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)  Gentlemen’s Agreement (1907-1908)


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