Mr. Abrams American History 2 - Home
Exploring Immigration through Maps
• For this assignment, use the article 35 Maps That Explain How America is a Nation of Immigrants (link on cbrown10ahs.).
• Find the following maps, read their descriptions, and answer the accompanying questions.
o To enlarge a map to view it closer, click on the map to open a new tab.
|Map # and Title |Analysis Questions |Your Answers |
|#1 – We Are All Immigrants |Which immigrant ancestry dominates the majority of | |
|[pic] |the US population? | |
| |Why is the South’s immigrant population | |
| |predominately dominated by the African ancestry | |
| |Choose another ancestry and hypothesize as to why | |
| |immigrants of that ancestry settled in that | |
| |geographic location. | |
|#5 – Mexico Replaces Germany as |Why was Germany allowed unrestricted immigration to| |
|America’s Top Immigrant Source |the US? | |
|[pic] | | |
| |From your knowledge on immigration restrictions, | |
| |identify another country that faced restrictions on| |
| |immigrating to the US during the early 1900s? Why | |
| |do you think restrictions were placed on this | |
| |country? | |
|#10 – The Most Famous Immigrant in|The sonnet by Emily Lazarus (“Give me your tired…),| |
|American History |is engraved on a plague at the base of the Statue | |
|[pic] |of Liberty. How does this passage reflect the mass | |
| |immigration to the US in the early 1900s? | |
|#11 – An Insanely Detailed Map of |Click on the map to enlarge it. | |
|Immigrants in America from 1903 |Most Southern states have very high unemployment | |
|[pic] |rates. Why could this be? | |
| |Look at the statistics on Hawaii. From what country| |
| |are the majority of immigrants? Why could this be? | |
|#12 – How Immigrants Became |Aligning with the Americanization movement, what | |
|American |types of skills did Hull House teach? | |
|[pic] | | |
| |77% of Chicago’s population consisted of | |
| |immigrants. Why do you think it would be useful for| |
| |Hull House to construct an ethnic map of Chicago | |
| |(like the one shown)? | |
|#15 – The National Origins Act |Name 2 countries that experienced a decrease in | |
|[pic] |immigration to America due to the National Origins | |
| |Act of 1924. | |
| |What was the reasoning for US quota laws? | |
|#20 – What Percentage of People |On average, Americans believe what percentage of | |
|are Immigrants? |the population are immigrants? What is the actual | |
|[pic] |percentage of immigrants in the population? | |
| |Why do you think Americans overestimate the number | |
| |of immigrants (especially illegal immigrants) in | |
| |the US today? | |
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