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Immigration Links

For Students 9th - 10th
This guide covers news, research, services and more regarding immigration in the United States.
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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: Immigration and Migration: Timeline and Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An interactive look at court cases that deal with the rights of immigrants between 1876 and 1901.
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Breakthrough: Iced (I Can End Deportation)

For Students 9th - 10th
Pretend you are an immigrant teenager and see how much you know about becoming a United States citizen. Play this online video game and see if you can make the right choices to avoid deportation by experiencing first hand what a...
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Legal Guide for Immigrants to Maine: Privileges and Obligations

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource explains the rights and responsibilities of immigrants who become U.S. citizens and residents of the state of Maine. Topics include voting, taxes, legal documentation, marriage rights, and driving regulations.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Classroom: Immigration

For Students 9th - 10th
This website contains an interactive timeline about the history of immigration in the United States.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Immigration Act of 1882

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about this comprehensive immigration law that was passed to limit immigration based on excluding certain kinds of people who were deemed "undesirable".
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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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Library of Congress

Loc: Chinese Immigration to the Us, 1851 1900

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of primary source documents giving historical evidence regarding the immigration of Chinese into the U.S. and the feelings of the government and the other settlers about it.
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Law of Return Passed in 1950

For Students 9th - 10th
The text of Israeli law encouraging Jewish immigration to Israel.
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Future of Freedom Fdn.: The Case for Unilateral Free Trade and Open Immigration

For Students 9th - 10th
This article by Jacob G. Hornberger is an essay in the book, The Case for Free Trade and Open Immigration, edited by Richard M. Ebeling and Jacob G. Hornberger. In it, Hornberger gives a hypothetical view of how life in the United States...
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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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Harvard University

Harvard Univ. Library: The Tide of Immigration: The Alien Contract Labor Law

For Students 9th - 10th
This chapter from a 1916 book by Frank Julian Warne, titled The Tide of Immigration, outlines how the so-called native workers' jobs should be protected from the influx of immigrants. Read about the law that made it illegal for...
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The Urban Institute: Immigration and Immigrants: Setting the Record Straight

For Students 9th - 10th
This article provides comprehensive information on just about every aspect of immigration. Topics range from the number and origin of immigrants to laws and policies at all levels of the United States government. (Published in 1994)
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Center for Immigration Studies

For Students 9th - 10th
A think tank research group that is "Pro-immigrant, low-immigration." Center for Immigration Studies offers current news articles and common topics in immigration.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1865 1898: Chinese Immigrants and Mexican Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the conflict with Mexican American and Chinese groups as white settlers pushed westward in the nineteenth century. Explains what brought so many Chinese immigrants to America and the roadblocks and discrimination that they had...
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Legal Guide for Immigrants to Maine

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive but easily understood legal guide for noncitizens in Spanish and English. Though directed to immigrants to Maine, the basic principles apply to immigrants to any state in the United States.
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How Do I? A Practical Guide to Living in America

For Students 9th - 10th
Miami-based law firm, Immigration Law Offices, Inc., provides information for new immigrants about basic tasks, such as finding housing, making phone calls, mailing letters, opening bank accounts, learning English, finding a doctor, and...
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Texas State Historical Association

Texas State Historical Association: Mexican Colonization Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the Colonization Law of August 18, 1824 where a Mexican statute allowed foreigners to immigrate to the country.
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Pine Tree Legal Assistance: Legal Guide for Immigrants: Criminal Procedure

For Students 9th - 10th
English-Spanish site that explains crimes and criminal procedure for immigrants in the state of Maine.
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A&E Television

History.com: How the Horrific Tragedy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Led to Workplace Safety Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
The March 25, 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was one of the deadliest workplace catastrophes in U.S. history, claiming the lives of 146 workers, most of them women immigrants in their teens and twenties. The fire was so horrific it...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Contesting Futures: America in 1960s: Lyndon Johnson and Great Society

For Students 11th - 12th
Read about the reforms and legislation undertaken through Lyndon B. Johnson's concept of the Great Society. These included economic and educational reforms, consumer protection, changes to immigration laws, and the Voting Rights Act of...
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USA Today

Usa Today: States Try to Block Illegal Workers

For Students 9th - 10th
Article covers the continued controversy surrounding illegal immigration. The debate has moved to the states as over 30 states have now enacted laws to crack down on illegal immigration. July, 2006.
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Brown Quarterly: The Chinese and the Transcontinental Railroad [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
From The Brown Quaterly (1997) an article describing the role of the Chinese immigrant in building the railroad. Includes images of the Chinese railroad workers. (PDF - scroll down to page 7)
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BBC

Bbc News: Migration Key Issue as Mexico's Calderon Visits Us

For Students 9th - 10th
BBC News examines the issues of migration from Mexico to the United States. Arizona's illegal immigration and the implications of the drug violence in Mexico on economic cooperation between Mexico and the U.S. are discussed in some...

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