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part 1)
Read the textbook (Chap 5: Immigration and the Foundations of the American Ethnic Hierarchy) carefully and answer the following questions.
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In the 300 years beginning in the early 1600s, how many Africans were brought to the Americas and the Caribbean islands?
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Immigration from Europe to the Western Hemisphere started in large scale in the 19th Century. In the period of 100 years after 1820, how many Europeans emigrated to the US and other countries in the Western Hemisphere?
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What were the causes of this mass migration from Europe to the Western Hemisphere?
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What are push factors in immigration?
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What are pull factors in immigration?
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What is a migration chain?
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At around the time of independence, which ethnic group became the host, or dominant, group?
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What is the Old Immigration?
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What is the New Immigration?
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What was the major difference between immigrants who came in the Old Immigration and those who came in the New Immigration?
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How did Americans respond to the immigrants who came to the US in the New Immigration?
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What is the Newest Immigration?
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What is the major difference between immigrants who came in the New Immigration and those who came in the Newest Immigration?
part 2)
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The table listed below presents data on the ethnic distribution of the population after the first Census was taken in 1790. Calculate the % of people who were in each ethnic category.Population Distribution by Ethic Category: 1790.
Ethnic Category Number Percent
English 2,100,000
Ulster Scot-Irish 300,000
German 270,000
Scottish 150,000
Dutch 100,000
Walsh 10,000
French 15,000
Jews 2,000
Swedish 2,000
Other 200,000
African 757,000
TOTAL 3,906,000 100.0%
(Copy the table, paste it in your Word. Calculate the %s and write the %s in the table. Copy the table, paste it in Blackboard and submit it.)
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Which group constituted the largest category in 1790?
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Which group constituted the second largest category in 1790?
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What % of the population came from the British Isles (i.e., Great Britain & Ireland) in 1790?
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The table listed below presents data on immigration by specific countries or areas of origin. In order to get a sense of patterns of change, place in rank order from highest to lowest, the country with the highest number of immigrants, followed by the country with the second-highest number of immigrants, and so on, for each year shown. Place your answers in the blank table listed beneath the table.Immigrants by Area of Origin: 1820-1880.
Area of Origin 1820 1840 1860 1880
Great Britain 2,410 2,613 29,737 73,273
Ireland 3,614 39,430 48,637 71,603
Scandinavia 23 207 840 65,657
Germany 968 29,704 54,491 84,638
All others 1,320 12,069 18,765 142,506
Total 8,385 84,066 153,640 457,257
Rank Order of Immigrants by Area of Origin: 1820-1880
Rank Order 1820 1840 1860 1880
1 Ireland
2 Great Britain
3 All others
4 Germany
5 Scandinavia
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How did the total number of immigrants coming to the US change over the period of 1820-1880?
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How did the rankings of countries/areas sending immigrants to the US change over the period of 1820 – 1880?
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The table listed below presents data on immigration by specific countries or areas of origin. In order to get a sense of patterns of change, place in rank order from highest to lowest, the country with the highest number of immigrants, followed by the country with the second-highest number of immigrants, and so on, for each year shown. Place your answers in the blank table listed beneath the table.Immigrants by Area of Origin: Early 1900s.
Area of Origin 1906 1907 1913 1914
Great Britain 67,198 79,037 60,328 48,729
Ireland 34,995 34,530 27,876 24,688
Scandinavia 52,781 52,781 32,267 29,391
Germany 37,564 37,564 34,329 35,734
Poland* 265.138 338,452 254,825 278,152
Eastern Europe (including Russia) 215,665 258,943 291,040 255,660
Italy 273,120 285,731 265,542 283,738
All others 154,274 193,311 231,685 262,388
Total 1,100,735 1,285,349 1,197,892 1,218,480
.* Between 1899 and 1919, data on Poland include Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Russia. Also includes data from other Central European countries. This id sue to the political domination of Poland by other European societies.Rank Order of Immigrants by Area of Origin: Early 1900s.
Rank Order 1906 1907 1913 1914
1 Italy
2 Poland
3 Eastern Europe
4 All others
5 Great Britain
6 Scandinavia
7 Germany
8 Ireland
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Which countries were the major areas of origin for immigrants in the early 1900s?
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The table listed below presents data on immigration by specific countries in the 19th and 20th Century. List the top three countries that sent the largest number of immigrants to the US in 1865, 1965, 1998, and 2014. 1861-1870 1965 1998 2014 1. Germany 787,468 Canada 38,327 Mexico 131,575 Mexico 134,052 2. UK 606,896 Mexico 37,969 China 36,884 India 77,908 3. Ireland 435,778 UK 27,358 India 36,482 China 76,089 4. Canada 153,878 Germany 24,045 Philippines 34,466 Philippines 46,996 5. Norway 71,631 Cuba 19,760 Dominic R 20,387 Cuba 46,679 6. China 64,301 Colombia 10,885 Vietnam 17,649 Dominic R 44,577 7. Sweden 37,667 Italy 10,821 Cuba 17,375 Vietnam 30,283 8. France 35,986 Dominic R 9,504 Jamaica 15,146 Korea 20,423 9. Switzerland 23,286 Poland 8,465 El Salvador 14,590 El Salvador 19,27310. Denmark 17,094 Argentina 6,124 Korea 14,268 Iraq 19,153The countries sending the largest number of immigrants to the US..
Ranking 1861-1870 1965 1998 2014
1 Germany
2
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The table below shows population distribution by race/ethnic groups in 2000 and 2010. Which group experienced the largest decrease in % in 10 years? Which group experienced the largest increase in % in 10 years?Population of the United States by Race and Hispanic/Latino Origin, Census 2000 and 2010
Race and Hispanic/Latino origin Census 2010,
population Percent of
population Census 2000,
population Percent of
population
Total Population 308,745,538 100.0% 281,421,906 100.0%
Single race
White 196,817,552 63.7 211,460,626 75.1
Black or African American 37,685,848 12.2 34,658,190 12.3
American Indian and Alaska Native 2,247,098 0.7 2,475,956 0.9
Asian 14,465,124 4.7 10,242,998 3.6
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander 481,576 0.15 398,835 0.1
Two or more races 5,966,481 1.9 6,826,228 2.4
Some other race 604,265 0.2 15,359,073 5.5
Hispanic or Latino 50,477,594 16.3 35,305,818 12.5
.NOTE: Percentages do not add up to 100% due to rounding and because Hispanics may be of any race and are therefore counted under more than one category.Source: U.S. Census Bureau: National Population Estimates; Decennial Census.
Part 3)
Week 6 (Chap 5) Quiz
Week 6 (Chap 5) QuizClick the above link to take the quiz for Week 6, covering Chap 5.
This quiz tests your understanding of key concepts presented in Chap 5. It contains 19 multiple-choice questions. Take the quiz after you have finished all the other assignments. You can have 1 hour 30 min to complete this quiz. Once you start taking the quiz, you have to finish it in one setting. This is an open-book quiz.
