IMMIGRATION+AND+GROWTH+OF+CITIES

Immigration And Growth of Cities Use these links to view the SOL content of this topic.[|U. S. II 3b] [|U.S.II 3b-2] [|U.S. II 3b-3]

Immigration vocabulary list: Click on each link. Use the information in the reading to write your definition for each term. Remember that one key sentence from the link (especially in the Wikipedia links) usually makes the BEST definition.

•Ellis Island wikipedia: [|First sentence]
= -- Class Activity: = =Theme: The journey to America had many effects on the immigrants. America changed greatly as a result of the post Civil War immigration.=  Look at the pictures shown below. What are your impressions of the journey to America after the Civil War? What was it like to travel to America in the years following the Civil War? List the number and title of each picture in your notebook, leaving space to write below each one. This will take up one whole page in your notebook. Complete the following activities next to the number in your notebook for EVERY picture. Write five details that you observe in each picture next to the number for that picture. Then, below your list of details, write a sentence for each picture giving your impressions using at least two different details from the picture in your sentence.
 * [[image:http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/imde/images/ship-med.jpg width="448" height="306" align="center" caption="Picture 1: German Immigrants Boarding Ship in Hamburg"]] ||
 * Picture 1: German Immigrants Boarding Ship in Hamburg ||


 * [[image:http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a40000/3a40000/3a40400/3a40441r.jpg width="256" height="178" caption="Picture 2:Ellis Island Immigration Station"]] ||
 * Picture 2:Ellis Island Immigration Station ||


 * [[image:http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a30000/3a32000/3a32100/3a32171r.jpg width="170" height="256" caption="Picture 3: An Immigrant Family At Ellis Island"]] ||
 * Picture 3: An Immigrant Family At Ellis Island ||


 * [[image:http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a10000/3a10000/3a10000/3a10036r.jpg width="202" height="256" caption="Picture 4: Immigrants Being Inspected at Ellis Island"]] ||
 * Picture 4: Immigrants Being Inspected at Ellis Island ||


 * [[image:http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/pan/6a12000/6a12000/6a12044r.jpg caption="Picture 5: Hester St. In New York's Lower East Side, 1902 (tenements above shops)"]] ||
 * Picture 5: Hester St. In New York's Lower East Side, 1902 (tenements above shops) ||

-- Reading and analyzing text using primary and secondary sources: **Ellis Island Activity--__ Copy these questions into your notebook. Then click on the link and answer them in complete sentences by viewing all three pages in the link. __** ===1. Who was the first immigrant to land on Ellis Island?=== ===2. In what year did this take place and what was the person's native country?=== ===3. Where is the Statue of Liberty in relation to Ellis Island?=== ===4. What happened in the Registry Room?=== ===5. What other cities had ports of entry for immigrants?=== ===6. How many immigrants have entered America through Ellis Island?=== ==[|Ellis Island Link]==

= __Chapter Reading:__ Copy the questions and answer them as you read the link. [|Link for Reading] = Questions For Reading Notes: =1. WHO came to America (what groups of people)?= =2. WHAT countries did they come from?= =3. In WHICH years did they come?= =4. HOW MANY immigrants came to the U. S.?= = = = = =__ Immigrant Experience Internet Lesson: __ Click on the link and answer the questions on the handout. You will be working by yourself on this activity. [|Immigrant Experience]=

===__ Interpreting Political Cartoons __=== ===Look at the cartoons shown below. Write cartoon 1 and cartoon 2 in your notebook and leave space for your answers under each place.=== ===1. What American opinion about immigrants is shown in each cartoon?=== ===2. List three details about each cartoon in your notebook next to the correct cartoon number.=== ===3. Then use all three details to write one sentence for each cartoon, telling what opinion about immigration is shown in each cartoon. (That's two (2) sentences.)===

Growth of Cities

 What was life like in the quickly growing American cities during the years following the Civil War? Choose two pictures of city life from the photographs in the link found below. ONLY use these topics: Buildings, Bridges, Children, Youths, Houses, Hotels. Be careful NOT to choose a photograph that is dated after the year 1915. Write the title of each picture in your notebook and make a "quick sketch" of the photograph. Then describe what you see in the picture, using three sentences with an INTERESTING detail about the picture in EACH picture. [|Life In the City Link]

Games: 1. [|West & Immigration] 2. [|Immigration & Cities] 3. [|Immigration & Big Business]