American Immigration - Currituck County Schools



American Immigration

The US was founded by people who emigrated to its eastern shores from Europe. Immigrants have continued to move to America, but the ethnicities of those coming to the nation have changed over time. The charts below help show how immigration has changed the American population. Study the charts and read pp. 8-11 in the textbook to answer the following questions.

|Year |% of Native Population |% of Foreign-born Population |

|2000 |88.95 |11.05 |

|1970 |95.27 |4.73 |

|1940 |91.19 |8.81 |

|1910 |85.3 |14.7 |

|1880 |86.68 |13.31 |

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❖ How could you explain the increases and decreases in the number of immigrants?

❖ What caused the spike of European immigration in the late 1880s and early 1900s?

❖ What caused the rise of Asian & Latin American immigration over the last 40 years?

For each of the RED headings, write a GIST according to the following guidelines. A GIST is a summary of the reading in a predetermined number of words.

❖ For heading 1, write a GIST of no more than 25 words.

❖ For heading 3, write a GIST of no more than 30 words.

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