Strutting down
the Blvd.
A Short Online Exploration of Immigration to the U.S.
Go to the website below and
answer all the questions:
http://www.crossingtheblvd.org
Click on enter
1.
What is
a new immigrant?
2.
What is
the National Immigration Act of 1965?
3.
What is
4.
Where
is
Under the “Go To” pull down
menu in the upper right corner, go to “Timeline” and answer the following
questions:
5.
In
1790, what was required to become an American Citizen?
6.
What seemed to be the primary focus
of the debate about immigration in the 1860’s and 1870’s?
7.
What was passed in
1882? Who had control over
immigration? Who was
excluded?
8.
How was this law revised
in 1891?
9.
What was established
in 1906?
10. In
1917, what was added as a requirement for immigration?
11. What
was exempt from the quota law in 1921?
12. How did immigration attitudes and patterns
change in the 1930’s and 40’s? Why?
13. How
did these attitudes and patterns change again beginning in 1968?
14. What was the focus of the Immigration Reform
and Control Act of 1986?
15. Do
the policies toward immigration through the late 80’s and 90’s
fit with the 2001 Patriot Act?
Under the “Go To” pull down
menu in the upper right corner, go to “Unlikely Bedfellows” and answer the
following questions:
16. What cultures are
represented in the narrative?
17. How do they narrators try to integrate their
own cultures in
18. How do the narrators’ cultures support one
another or clash with one another?
Extension and Reflection:
19. Looking at the specifics of that you have
gathered, what conclusions could you draw about the immigrant experience in the
20. How can any of this information inform the
current debate about immigration in the