INTRODUCTION & PRELIMINARY LESSON STRUCTURE

First series topic: American Immigration,
Level: Some materials on Elementary, Middle School, High School level;
also usable for special education..
Time Frame: For full series of 10 Learning Events over a School Year.

The America Immigration Series is a 10 segment action learning event series

Introduction:

They Came to America

Immigration to America across the Atlantic, Pacific, and from the South American Continent has been the largest movement of peoples in all of human history.

FROM AUTHORITY, England 1630's

FROM FREEDOM, Africa 1730's

FROM FAMINE, Ireland 1840's

FROM TYRANNY, Prussia 1840's

FROM DISORDER, China, 1860's

FROM LANDLESSNESS, Europe 1880's

FROM FUTILE TOIL, Italy, 1900 - 1910's

FROM OPPRESSION, Russia, 1900 -1914

FROM PEONAGE, South America - 1920- present

FROM GENOCIDE, Bosnia - 1990's

DEAL AMERICAN IMMIGRATION LEARNING EVENTS

Follows American historical periods.

Three worlds meet- Beginnings to 1620

1. An introduction to the New World - The age of exploration

Chronology of Voyages of Exploration 1486-1522


 Colonization and Settlement, 1620 - 1763

2. Jamestown

3. Pennsylvania ,a planned colony -

Revolution and the New Nation, 1754 - 1820's

4. Williamsburg and other old southern colonies

5. Slavery and African captives

Expansion and Reform 1801 - 1861

6. Chinese and the railroads-includes transportation study

7. Germans and Scandinavians settle in the Mid-West

Civil War to beginnings of Industrial Revolution, 1850 - 1870

8. Irish immigration

Industrialization to World War I, 1870 - 1914:

The great immigration period from Southern and Eastern Europe.

9. Overview; Southern & Central Europe...The Italians, Jews, Poles & others.

10. Not Like Us; The ghettos clustered in cities with cultural pride.

11. Angel Inland; Immigration from Asia, racial barriers,

12. Newspaper production; Production doubles, ethnic newspapers

13. Who are the new Americans?- Biographical and cultural study.

14. European History Box- Reasons several different European groups came to the U. S.

World War I to Present, 1914 - 2001, Start of WW I -

immigration slows drastically. Immigration Act of 1921.

15. Hispanics, Koreans and other Asians & Bosnians

Survey of most recent immigration trends.

16. Summary: America from the "melting pot" to industrial giant

and world leader.