Targeted Content Standards and Benchmarks
United States National History Standards
The Development of Industrial America (1870-1900)
Standard 2: Massive immigration after 1870 and how new social patterns, conflicts, and ideas of national unity developed amid growing cultural diversity.
Standard 2A: The student understands the sources and experiences of the new immigrants.
- Trace patterns of immigrant settlement in different regions of the country and how new immigrants helped produce a composite American culture that transcended group boundaries. [Reconstruct patterns of historical succession and duration]
- Assess the challenges, opportunities, and contributions of different immigrant groups. [Examine historical perspectives]
Student Objectives
Students will be able to:
- Describe the wave of immigration during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through the eyes of an immigrant
- Identify the “push” and “pull” influence on immigration
- Describe an immigrant's journey and entry to the United States
- Describe the immigration processing experience
- Describe living and working conditions for new immigrants during the nineteenth century and the challenges they faced
- Analyze the effects of immigration on one immigrant group in the United States
- Compare the immigration experiences of different immigrant groups
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