Historical Analysis of Immigration Trends

Multiple Choice

What is the main idea of this chart?

• Push and Pull Factors

• Total number of immigrants by year

• Immigration by decade and region

• Climate in different regions in the world

Multiple Choice

What does the highlighted boxes show?

• The decade with the most immigrants

• The region with the highest immigration.

• The total number of immigrants.

• The region of last residence

Open Ended

Using the timeline and the data about immigration to the United States, list world events that may have led to either a decrease or increase in immigration to the United States. For example, immigration from Northern and Western Europe began to rise in the 1840s, at the same time that Germany and Ireland both experienced crop failures, driving people to leave those countries to avoid starvation.

Multiple Select

Choose ALL the events that increased immigration.

• Religious and ethnic persecution in other countries

• Economic slumps in other countries

• U.S. economic opportunities and booms

• U.S. economic depressions

• Restrictive immigration laws

Multiple Select

Choose ALL the events that DECREASED immigration.

• Religious and ethnic persecution in other countries

• Civil War and World Wars

• Permissive immigration laws

• U.S. economic depressions

• Restrictive immigration laws

Multiple Choice

Between 1830 and 1900, the greatest number of immigrants came from....

• northern and western Europe

• southern and eastern Europe

• Asia

• Americas

• Africa

Multiple Choice

Between 1900 and 1920, the greatest number of immigrants came from....

• northern and western Europe

• southern and eastern Europe

• Asia

• Americas

• Africa

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What do you notice in regards to immigration patterns from 1910 to 1940s?

Open Ended

Why do you think immigration to the U.S. decreased so much between 1910 and 1930's?

Why do you think immigration to the U.S. decreased between 1910 and 1930's?

A sample answer

A conclusion I can draw is that the dangers and difficulties of traveling during World War I reduced immigration, which was restricted even further by discriminatory anti-immigrant legislation passed in the 1920s.

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What do you notice in regards to immigration patterns after the 1980's?

Open Ended

What events may have caused the huge increase of immigrants coming to the U.S. after 1980?

What events may have caused the huge increase of immigrants coming to the U.S. after 1980?

A sample answer

A conclusion I can draw is the end of the Cold War opened up the borders of formerly Communist countries, allowing more people to immigrate. U.S. immigration laws became less restrictive, with the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act abolishing ethnic quotas and the 1980 Refugee Act providing a way for people facing political, religious, or ethnic persecution to seek safety in the United States.

Draw

Draw a simple bar graph of what you think the next fifty years of immigration might look like on a chart

Think about explanation that includes the events or push and pull factors that might affect immigration trends. You will write you explanation on next slide.

Open Ended

Explain why you drew the chart the way you did; what events might influence how your chart looks; and what kind of push or pull factors might affect immigration trends

Poll

Think about your previous explanation. Click the poll option for any factor that you thought of that. (You can select more than one)

• Wars

• Economic booms or depressions

• New Immigration Laws

• Environmental Changes

• Other