EQ: What did you learn from your parents/adults about the issue of immigration in the U.S.?
Vocabulary Walk (if needed)
Journal 4 Notes: Lecture ~ A LONG History Between Mexico and the U.S.
- History Lecture: Immigration History 1900-1999
- New Vocab:
- Push Factors = Reasons to leave a country
- Pull Factors = Reasons to enter a country.
- Resources for this lecture:
- Click here for lecture notes (quiz coming)
- source document
- power point
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- Based on what you've heard in class today, brainstorm with a partner. What are the major Push/Pull factors in today's immigration surge? How have these factors changed over the last 100 years?
- Write a paragraph explaining why this issue is so historically complex, emotionally charged and seemingly impossible to solve.
Explore some resources:
On general immigration
On the recent refugee crisis
And one more...
