What is one challenge first-generation immigrants may encounter that second-generation immigrants typically do not?
Read the passage from a letter by an unnamed man to a newspaper called the Chicago Defender. It was written in 1917 during the Great Migration. At that time, millions of Black Americans moved from rural areas in the South to cities in the North, Midwest, and West.Dear Sir: I have been reading the Chicago Defender and seeing so many advertisements about the work in the north I thought to write you concerning my condition. I am working hard in the south and can hardly earn a living. I have a wife and one child and can hardly feed them. I thought to write and ask you for some information concerning how to get a pass for myself and family. I dont want to leave my family behind as I cant hardly make a living for them right here with them and I know they would fare hard if I would leave them. If there are any agents in the south there havent been any of them to Lutcher [a town in Louisiana] if they would come here they would get at least fifty men. Please sir let me hear from you as quick as possible. Now this is all. Please dont publish my letter, I was out in town today talking to some of the men and they say if they could get passes that 30 or 40 of them would come. But they havent got the money and they dont know how to come. But they are good strong and able working men. If you will instruct me I will instruct the other men how to come as they all want to work. Please dont publish this because we have to whisper this around among our selves because the white folks are angry now because the negroes are going north.Which type of source is this passage?
Which policy would be most helpful for immigrants who move to the United States but speak little English?
What was the goal of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia?
Why is exploring the counternarrative of Latino migrants and refugees important for understanding their experience in the United States?
How does the Latino immigrant experience vary between first-generation immigrants and their children?
How can personal narratives be helpful when creating a migration map?
How did the Second Great Migration impact civil rights activism?
What economic shift contributed to the Second Great Migration?
The graph compares the number of refugees who entered the United States to the admissions ceiling.
Read the statement by the Department of State on the US Refugee Admissions Program.President Biden has confirmed America's pledge to support refugees by keeping the refugee admission limit for the fiscal year 2024 at 125,000, a figure that has remained unchanged since fiscal year 2022 and is the highest in many years. This action demonstrates America's ongoing role as a leader in resettling refugees, especially at a time when the world is experiencing a severe crisis with an unprecedented number of individuals being displaced due to conflicts, persecution, and instability.What would most likely result if the government changed the admissions ceiling to 80,000 refugees in the years that followed?
Read the restatement of an excerpt from President Andrew Jackson’s message to Congress in 1830.By allowing white people to move into the area between Tennessee and Louisiana, we can make the southwestern border much stronger. This will help the nearby states defend themselves. It will also clear Mississippi and western Alabama of Native American territories, letting these states grow quickly in people, wealth, and power. This plan will separate Indians from white communities, free them from being under state laws, and let them live their way with their traditions. Over time, with the government's protection and good advice, they might leave behind their old ways and become a modern, Christian community.According to the text, what was one of the federal government’s goals for the Cherokee people?
Review the post-Civil War political cartoon, which comments on formerly enslaved people and immigrants from Asia.
The bar graph shows statistics related to Chinese immigration.
By 1997, 58% of Southeast Asian refugees had become US citizens. How did this influence US politics?
Read the excerpt from Chief Wilma Mankiller’s speech "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.”It's a daunting set of problems, but . . . we focused on what we saw as the positive things in our communities. One of the things that I saw, just as if you look at what happened after the Trail of Tears, you can look at some of the positive things that happened among our people. What I looked at in our communities is I saw among our people—they had unbelievable tenacity. Our tribe is one of the most acculturated tribes in the country, and yet there are thousands of people who still speak Cherokee. Ceremonies that we've had since the beginning of time are still going on in a tribe as acculturated as ours is. Our people are very tenacious, and it was that tenacity that I saw as a strength we could build on.Which conclusion does Mankiller draw about the Trail of Tears?
The pie chart shows statistics for the population of San Jose, California.
What distinguishes a migrant from a refugee?
Read the restatement of an excerpt of a letter written by former US soldier John G. Burnett in 1890 about what he witnessed during Cherokee removal.As of 1890, we are too recent from the Cherokee removal for our youth to fully grasp the extent of the injustice done to a defenseless group. The truth is being kept from today's young people. Students are not aware that the lands we live on were forcefully taken from a vulnerable population to satisfy the greed of the white man.Which statement about the long-term effects of Cherokee removal does this excerpt best support?
How did the Refugee Act of 1980 change the US approach to refugees?
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