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Handout
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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Study Guide
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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Lesson Plan
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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Website
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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Website
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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Lesson Plan
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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Article
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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Handout
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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Website
Library of Congress

Loc: Legacy of French Canadian Immigrants in New England

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Designed by American Memory Fellows Linda Hamel and Linda Hedrirck, this site explores the settlements of French Canadians in New England in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It provides teachers complete lesson plans for 8...
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Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: The Rush of Immigrants

For Students 5th - 8th
Read about the new wave of immigrants who came to America in the late 19th century. See differences between these groups of immigrants and those who came earlier. Find out where immigrants settled, and read about those who did not...
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Lesson Plan
Schools of California Online Resources for Education

Score: Nativism in 19th C. America

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students explore the reasons people immigrated to America in the nineteenth century, the urban growth that resulted, the development of public education, the contributions of immigrants, the wave of nativism, and the...
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Website
Other

Place in History: The Bowery Hall of Fame

For Students 9th - 10th
Stroll through the Bowery in New York City and see what the tenements looked like in the late 19th century. This mini museum shows the life of the Bowery. Information about tenement areas in other cities is included.
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Unit Plan
University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Eugenics, Race, & Immigration Restriction

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource consists of primary documents about the international eugenics movements in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Its goal is to show how eugenics influenced immigration laws and how eugenics theories and policies...
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eBook
University of Groningen

American History: Essays: Modern Emigration

For Students 9th - 10th
Essay on Dutch emigration in modern times. Rather than the mass emigration that occurred during the 19th Century, emigration during the 20th Century to U.S. and Canada was on more of an individual basis.
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Unit Plan
Other

Paul Yee: 'Dead Man's Gold and Other Stories' Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This teaching guide provided by Paul Yee for his book of short stories, "Tales from Gold Mountain", provides a summary of the book, discussion questions and classroom activities. The book explores the experiences of Chinese immigrants to...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Journey of the Jewish Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment from The Jewish Americans shows how in the 19th century Jews and other groups were sometimes not welcomed when they immigrated to the United States. In addidtion to the video are teaching tips and follow-up questions,...
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Lesson Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois: The Chinese Experience: Chinese Exclusion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan is from a larger unit examining the Chinese immigrant experience in America in the 19th century. Students will examine actions that were taken to discriminate against the Chinese and exclude them from American society.
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Website
University of Alberta

Atlas of Alberta Railways: Land Grant System

For Students 3rd - 8th
Presented by the University of Alberta, this resource contains information on the land grant system in the Alberta region. Information on how the Canadian government used land grants in the late 19th century to spur population growth in...
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Primary
Calisphere: University of California Libraries

University of California: Calisphere: Gold Rush Era: Everyday Life and People

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of primary source photos from 19th-century California which portray what everyday life was like during the California Gold Rush.
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Lesson Plan
Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Jacob Riis

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry instructional activity allows students to investigate the photographs of...
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Progress, the Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Eighteen primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the industrial, racial, and technological progress of the late-nineteenth century.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The American Civil Rights Movement: An Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
Given primary and secondary resources, students will be able to trace the historical development of the civil rights movement in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, and describe the roles of political organizations that promoted civil...

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