American Immigration

Essential Question

How does human activity impact human rights?

American Migration Edition

The Art of Manifest Destiny This resource shows some of the artists of the time. Students can read about the work, view the work and discuss how art can affect the world.

NebraskaStudies.org This resource shows historical events in Nebraska. This part of the country is very interesting in terms of migration. The indigenous groups were put on the reservations here, which is a whole history in itself. Freed Blacks migrated here: Their Experience is another story. The other Americans migrating from the East looking for the land offered by the US government make another piece to the puzzle of migration. You simply can not teach about migration at all unless you teach about Nebraska. This website starts you in the right direction.

Primary Source Documents Scroll to the bottom of the page to see the primary source documents. The website itsef gives good summarizing information.

Inquiry Process

Week One : Who came to the USA? When did they come?

Well, lots of people came. Some people came with their kinfolk, some people came with other people from their culture, some people came alone. Some groups only came for a little while, like the French, and some have been here all along, like the Cherokee. This is the best time to teach graphing: How many Irish came? How many Germans came? How many Cherokee left?

Day One: Learning to Graph, the Irish

Have students open a new Google Doc and follow these directions. There is a simplified version on the same doc if you scroll down. This should take at least two class periods, but at the end, you have cool graphs to display in a bulletin board and kids learn some tech skills!