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Metrocosm: Here's Everyone Who's Immigrated to the u.s. Since 1820

For Students 6th - 8th
America is referred to as a "melting pot". View how we attained this label using the following map that shows patterns of immigration from 1820-2013. Included are charts that show the immigration "waves" by country from 1820-2013.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Immigrant Women and the American Experience

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the ways that immigrant women have transformed America socially, politically, and economically.
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The Peopling of America: Pre 1790 Settlers

For Students 9th - 10th
This web page displays a chart and description of the immigrants into the United States before 1790.
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The Peopling of America: 1820 1880

For Students 9th - 10th
This page displays a chart and description of the immigrants into the United States between 1820-1880.
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The Peopling of America: 1880 1930

For Students 9th - 10th
This page displays a chart and description of the immigrants into the United States between 1880-1930.
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The Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Foundation:the Peopling of America: 1930 1965

For Students 9th - 10th
This page displays a chart and description of the immigrants into the United States between 1930-1965.
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The Peopling of America: 1790 1820

For Students 9th - 10th
This page displays a chart and description of the immigrants into the United States between 1790-1820.
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The Peopling of America: 1965 2000

For Students 9th - 10th
This web page displays a chart and description of the immigrants into the United States between 1965-2000.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Tenement Museum: Your Story, Our Story

For Students 9th - 10th
This online museum features a digital archive. Students, and anyone around the United States, are encouraged to upload images of family objects and their stories. American immigration and migration are the foci for this archive.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Images of Ellis Island and Immigration, Ca. 1880 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of twelve historical photographs showing immigrants arriving at Ellis Island and being processed.
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Ndsu: New Immigrants and Old

For Students 9th - 10th
Americans at the turn of the century were alarmed about what they perceived as a change in the type of immigrants entering the United States. Some of the traits they saw as distinguishing the new immigrants from the old immigrants were...
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Mexicans Emigrate the United States in El Paso, Texas

For Students 9th - 10th
Mexicans coming to the United States through an El Paso, Texas immigration station. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, 1938.
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United States Proportion of Natives of Germany to Total Population

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Library of Congress provides a good overview of events relating to German immigrants provided in a timeline from 1608 to 1990.
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American Jewish Archives: 350 Years of American Jewry

For Students 9th - 10th
View many different photographs and documents that are important to the history of Jewish immigrants.
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Smithsonian Education: "Gypsies" in the United States

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has many photos from the Carlos de Wendler-Funaro Gypsy Research Collection. The site is an introduction to several groups of people from other countries who refer to themselves as "gypsies" in English. Each group, which has a...
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Smithsonian Education: "Gypsies" in the United States

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has many photos from the Carlos de Wendler-Funaro Gypsy Research Collection. The site is an introduction to several groups of people from other countries who refer to themselves as "gypsies" in English. Each group, which has a...
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Smithsonian Education: "Gypsies" in the United States

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has many photos from the Carlos de Wendler-Funaro Gypsy Research Collection. The site is an introduction to several groups of people from other countries who refer to themselves as "gypsies" in English. Each group, which has a...
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Smithsonian Education: "Gypsies" in the United States

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has many photos from the Carlos de Wendler-Funaro Gypsy Research Collection. The site is an introduction to several groups of people from other countries who refer to themselves as "gypsies" in English. Each group, which has a...
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Smithsonian Education: "Gypsies" in the United States

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has many photos from the Carlos de Wendler-Funaro Gypsy Research Collection. The site is an introduction to several groups of people from other countries who refer to themselves as "gypsies" in English. Each group, which has a...
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Pbs News Hours: Q&a: Calderon Visits u.s. With Security, Immigration in Mind

For Students 9th - 10th
Shannon On'Neil, Latin American studies fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, answers questions posed by PBS about Mexico's President Felipe Calderon's visit to the United States. The Q & Q covers a range of issues from...
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Mother at Funeral of Her Murdered Daughter. Photo:

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent in-depth report from NPR that examines immigration issues in the United States today and its affect on America's economy. Delves into the debate Congress is having over proposed new immigration law.
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Irish Fleeing Aboard Ships

For Students 9th - 10th
What factors prompted Europeans to come to the United States in the nineteenth century? This article discusses how the Industrial Revolution in Europe and the potato famine in Ireland brought millions of people to the U.S., and...
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Uncle Sam's Lodging House Cartoon

For Students 9th - 10th
What factors prompted Europeans to come to the United States in the nineteenth century? This article discusses how the Industrial Revolution in Europe and the potato famine in Ireland brought millions of people to the U.S., and...
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Mexican Workers

For Students 9th - 10th
This article describes Mexicans coming to work in the United States in order to make enough money to send to their families in Mexico, though many, as stated in the article, want to eventually return to Mexico.

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