Immigration

1492-1790: Great European Migration and Colonial America

Immigration Timeline
Interactive Timeline: Click the blue arrows to see the rest of our immigration/migration history!

1501-1865: Slave Trade and Underground Railroad

1630-1840: Indentured Servants

1803-1853: Westward Expansion

1830-1850: Indian Removal Act & The Trail of Tears

1840s-1850s: Irish, English, and German Immigration

1848-1882: Chinese Immigration

1882: Chinese Exclusion Act

1892-1954: Ellis Island and Angel Island (1910-1940)

1916-1970: The Great Migration

Ted Talk: Author Isabel Wilkerson tells the story of the outpouring of 6,000,000 African Americans from the Jim Crow South to cities in the North and West between World War I and the 1970s.
Brainpop
Video: What is the Great Migration?
Video: Why?
Textbook pg. 506-507
NewsELA: Jim Crow
NewsELA: Songs of African American Migration
Script for a Play

Copy of CES5 SS Unit 4 Arc 1 Great Migration

1917: Puerto Ricans Become US Citizens

1924: Immigration Act

1942-1946: WWII and Japanese Internment

1942: Bracero Program for Farmworkers

1948: Displaced Persons Act

1965: Immigration and Naturalization Act

1986: Immigration Reform Act

Immigration Primary Sources

Current Immigrant Story Collections

Other Stories

Causes: Life before (Im)migrating

Coming to the US

Experiences in the US

Current Media and Politics on Immigration

Effects of (Im)migration

Refugees

Answer the required question and one of the optional questions.

Required: How are past and present waves of immigration and their impacts similar?

Option 1: What are some of the push and pull factors that influence people to immigrate or migrate?

Option 2: Choose one of the cultural narratives (legends, songs, games) that we studied. How does it demonstrate the struggles of a group of people?

Option 3: Choose one migrant group. If this group were removed, how would our lives be majorly impacted today?