2. Immigration and Expansion Assignment #1
1. What percentage do you think
a new immigrant should have
to get to become a legal
citizen?
2. Pages 491-2 What seemed to
be the two legal immigration
ports into the United States?
3. What state did most Chinese
immigrants settle in?
4. Would you have waited at
Angel Island for 6 months if
you thought you would have a
better life in the US after that?
3. Page 491-492
• Most immigrants came through…
• Ellis Island, NY “Fresh off the boat”
http://www.ellisisland.org/
4. “Melting Pot”
• Immigrants will…
• Learn English
• Learn holidays
• Work
• Dress & act American
• Still true?
7. Chinese Immigrants
• Pages 493-494
1. How long were Chinese
immigrants not allowed to
come to the US?
2. What happened to the
Japanese and Korean
Immigrants?
3. What was the Literacy debate
about?
4. How would Mexico change if
the US treated Mexicans like
Chinese in the 1880’s?
5. How would Mexico change if
the US opened its borders
like in the mid 1800’s?
6. #1-2 on page 493
8. 1894 Big Business game
• Make a list of the top 5 industries
• Make a list of the top 5 companies
• Group who gets the most correct, 5pts extra credit
9. 1894 – Biggest Companies
General Electric
American Cotton Oil Company (Predecessor of Bestfoods and now part
of Unilever)
American Sugar Company (Now Amstar Holdings)
American Tobacco Company (Was broken up in 1911)
Chicago Gas Company (is now Peoples Energy Corporation)
Distilling & Cattle Feeding Company (is now Millennium Chemicals)
Laclede Gas Light Company (still in operation as The Laclede Group)
National Lead Company (is now NL Industries)
North American Company (Edison Electric company, broken up in the
1950s)
US Steel
U.S. Leather Company (was dissolved in 1952)
United States Rubber Company (bought by Michelin in 1990)
10. Next Assignment
1. Describe the most religious person you know.
2. What do you think of when you think of Utah?
11. Page 266 & 298
• 2nd Great Awakening
• Protestant = Christian who isn’t Catholic
• The Mormons
• polygamy
• Joseph Smith
– 33 wives
• “Pioneer Day”
18. Westward migration choice
• Choose 1 assignment to do:
• 4 pane comic showing Mormon & 49er pioneers
on the way west (what would they talk about?)
• 5 newspaper headlines regarding Mormons & Cali
Gold Rush (must have dates)
19. Women in the West
1 paper per group
1. 10 reasons women
were important to
the development in
the west
2. 5 out of the book
with page numbers
(ch?)
3. Do an OPTIC “C” for
this map. Consider
their roles in the
West
20. Make your own expansion project
You can work with up to 1 partner, 32 points
• Must show how US acquired the following territories:
Florida, Louisiana, Washington/Oregon,
California/Utah/Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Gadsden,
Alaska, Hawaii
• How women’s lives would have changed
• How Native tribes viewed the acquisition
• Must have a date, map and important economic benefit
to each acquisition
• Ideas: flip book, small poster, puppet show, comic book,
board game, essay, movie script, song/rap, something
else you have done in another class
