Industrialization


 * Industrialization and Immigration **


 * Why Take the Risk? **

Where did your family //emigrate// from? Why did they leave their country? What was their life like?

These are all questions we are going to answer in the unit //Why Take the Risk?// **Your job in this unit is to put together a portfolio of an immigrant from another country.** You must focus on putting together a portfolio with a fictional character profile.

To get started, you must choose a country to emigrate from. This may be a country that your family is from, or another country you are interested in learning about. I will provide you a list to choose from. Then you must create a fictional character that is from that country.

** You must develop a profile of this person **, including:

1) Name _ 2) Age __ 3) Family history 4) Occupation and work experience 5) Education 6) Description of life in the old country 7) Reasons for wanting to leave the old country  Think of // pushing // factors such as   economic depression;  climactic conditions, such as drought;  social unrest;  overpopulation

8) Reasons for wanting to enter the U.S.  Think of // pulling // factors such as   government incentives,  personal opportunity,  free expression

Along with the profile of your person, you must also **answer the following questions about your country** for your portfolio:

1) What was life like in the “old country”? 2) Why did the group leave their native land? 3) In what years did the majority of the people leave? 4) What was it like for the immigrants as they traveled to, arrived at, and lived in the U.S.? 5) How did the immigration experience differ among immigrant groups? 6) Was the risk of immigration worth it?

** You will develop a PowerPoint ** in which all of these questions along with your character’s profile will be included. I have provided a student example for you to look at. I will provide websites and resources along with class time to do your research and create your profile and portfolio.

Good luck!

Resources

Hmong Association of Green Bay, Inc. 424 W. Walnut St., Green Bay, WI 920-437-4550 []

[|The Peopling of America] – This is a site that has a timeline/graph of immigration in America from 1790-2000.

[|Passenger Search] – This is a seach site from Ellis Island. Students can use this to find someone to pretend to be. Try using the advanced search to chose an ethnicity.

[|Scholastic’s Immigration Page] – This page has a story about a boy whose family came from Poland and why they left their country to come to America.

[|Family histories] – This page is about several families and their reasons for coming to America.

Immigration: The Living Mosaic of People, Culture, and Hope – This site has many countries background during immigration time.

[|Interactive tour of Ellis Island] – This goes through Ellis Island and what would happen as immigrant ships came in.

[|Immigration ThinkQuest]

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Student Example

Vocabulary:

Muckrakers

Additional Resources
 * Photo Collections/Primary Sources**
 * The New York Public Library’s Digital Gallery, Ellis Island @http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?keyword=col_id:165&so=title* Immigration photos, 1902–1913
 * American Memory Collection on Immigration @http://memory.loc.gov/ammem* A searchable database of original photos and documents
 * The National Archives: Docs Teach @http://docsteach.org/documents* Photos and original documents
 * 19th Century America www.teacheroz.com/19thcent.htm* Primary source documents arranged by categories (look at Immigrant Workers for the Industrial Machine or City Life in the 19th Century, includes maps, photos, and documents. Documents on the 20th century are at www.teacheroz.com/20thcent.htm*
 * A Chronology of U. S. Historical Documents @http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/* Site with regularly updated documents from the 1215 Magna Carta to Barak Obama’s State of the Union speech in 2010.
 * EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History @http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page*Selected transcriptions, facsimiles, and translations of documents arranged by European country.


 * Internet Resources **
 * Immigration/Ellis Island **
 * Ellis Island: The Immigrant Experience@http://www.ellisisland.org/Immexp/index.asp* Information on Ellis Island, including an interactive timeline, family stories, and ship records
 * Scholastic Immigration@http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/seymour* The story of an immigrant’s journey from Poland
 * Immigration: The Living Mosaic of People, Culture, and Hope@http://library.thinkquest.org/20619* A WebQuest that explores the history of different immigrant groups
 * Immigration, The Library of Congress @http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/immig/introduction.html* An overview of immigration to the United States by groups that arrived in the greatest numbers
 * Scholastic’s Interactive Tour of Ellis Island@http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour* An audio, video, and pictorial tour of Ellis Island
 * History Channelwww.historychannel.com/ellisisland/index2.html* The History Channel’s online exhibit of Ellis Island
 * Interact Simulationswww.highsmith.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Production/Search.jsp?catalogId=10050&storeId=10001&langId=-1&N=796* The immigration simulation, Gateway, is available from Interact Simulations.
 * Destination Americanwww.pbs.org/destinationamerica/usim.html* Overview of US Immigration with personal stories and links to other resources
 * Digital Historywww.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/italian_immigration.cfm*Online exhibition on immigration

Students will demonstrate an understanding of the significant changes caused by the industrialization, urbanization, and population growth in the United States during the late 19th century and the origin, issues and impact of the progressive movement.