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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Chinese Experience in 19th Century America

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Extensive multi-lesson teaching unit focuses on the Chinese immigrant experience in the late 19th century.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Chinese Experience in 19th Century: Exclusion: Chinese Perspectives

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson uses primary sources to take a look at the Chinese perspective on the issue of the Exclusion Act and the effects of prejudice and discrimination on the Chinese population in the United States in the late 19th century.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: The Chinese Experience: 19th Century American Ideas

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The activities in this lesson explore the treatment of the Chinese in the 19th century and the role the media played in shaping people's response to the Chinese community.
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University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Coolie Trade in the 19th Century

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource consists of historical documents about Chinese coolies imported to Cuba during the 19th century. Its goal is to highlight the human experience during the coolie trade and to encourage critical thinking about how the coolie...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: The Chinese Experience in 19th Century America: The Rock Springs Massacre

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan is from a larger site examining the Chinese Experience in the United States in the 19th century. Discover the role the official support by the labor movement played in the discrimination, and in the case of the Rock...
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Melanie Simone Lorenz, "Promoting Immigration in 19th Century America"

For Students 9th - 10th
This blog focuses on the U.S.'s need for immigration in the 19th and early 20th century to satisfy particular labor needs and increase investments.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Irish Immigrants in 19th Century America

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Here, you will find lesson plans through which students research, study, and discuss the problems faced by Irish immigrants during the 19th century. Provides bibliographies, as well as effective strategies for studying Irish culture and...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: 19th Century: Roman Catholics & Immigration in 19th Century America

For Students 9th - 10th
Essay answers the question, "Why did so many Catholics come to the United States at this time?" The potato famine, urban industrialization, chance for a new life, are among some of the answers.
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Carl Lindskoog, "Immigration Detention: A Selective Bibliography"

For Students 9th - 10th
This bibliography supplements an essay in the Summer 2019 issue of the Immigration and Ethnic History Newsletter. This list shows, scholars in an array of disciplines have shaped the historiography of immigration detention. It includes...
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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: Jewish Immigration, Popular Culture, the Comic Book

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using primary source documents students look at Jewish immigration to the United states, popular culture of the time and the birth of the comic book.
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Other

Kinsella Homepage: Irish Immigrants in America During the 19th Century

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives insight into what life was like for Irish immigrants who came to America during the 19th century.
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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: Immigration and Migration

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lengthy essay discussing the differing opinions about immigration and the role of immigrants in the United States in the latter half of the 19th century and the early 20th century. Find out about the...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Urbanization 1870 1900: Great Migration and New European Immigration

For Students 11th - 12th
What caused the influx of African Americans and European immigrants into urban centers in the late 19th century? Learn about some of the discriminatory and anti-immigrant laws that were enacted to restrict their rights. Includes a chart...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens

For Students 11th - 12th
As white populations moved westward in the 19th century, Chinese immigrants and Hispanic Americans faced racism and discrimination and were unable to compete on an equal basis for land. Eventually, both groups settled into urban areas...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Utah History Encyclopedia: Immigration to Utah

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource looks at Mormon immigration into the state of Utah during the 19th century.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Prep: Us History: Immigration & Migration: Era of 'Old' Immigration

For Students 9th - 10th
The earliest waves of settlers to the Americas, up through the first half of the 19th century, constitute the era of 'old' immigration. There are some distinctions between those settlers who came prior to the Revolutionary War and those...
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US National Archives

National Archives: How Have Americans Responded to Immigration?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
How have Amercian's views on immigration changed over the course American history? What causes the shifts in acceptance? Students will view documents spanning the 19th and 20th century to answer those questions. They will examine...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Chinese Immigration to the United States, 1851 1900

For Students 9th - 10th
Through the use of primary source documents, learn about Chinese immigration in the late 19th century and what led to the passing of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Irish and German Immigration

For Students 5th - 8th
Read about the reasons thousands of Irish and Germans emigrated to the United States in the first half of the 19th century. Find out why there was a backlash to influx of so many immigrants, and learn about the Nativists who wanted to...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Grade 7 Social Studies: Immigration

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students develop and express claims through discussions and writing which examine the causes and consequences of historical events related to patterns of migration, immigration, and land use that influenced the cultural development of...
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Kevin Kenny, "Insiders & Outsiders in 19th Century American Immigration"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the history of who were the insiders (with rights) and the outsiders (without rights) in the early history of the US (prior to the 14th Ammendment. It was largely based on race not citizenship.
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History Teacher

Historyteacher.net: Immigration & Urban Society: Late 19c: Quiz (1)

For Students 9th - 10th
10-question multiple choice quiz is immediately scored and covers immigration in the late 19th century.
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History Teacher

Historyteacher.net: Immigration & Urban Society: Late 19c: Quiz (2)

For Students 9th - 10th
10-question multiple choice quiz is immediately scored and evaluates your comprehension of immigration the late 19th century.
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Harp Week

Harp Week: Immigrant and Ethnic America

For Students 9th - 10th
Website with detailed information from Harpers Weekly on various immigrant and ethnic groups that were a vital part of American culture during the second half of the 19th century. Page features the Chinese-American experience, 1857-1892.

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