Interpreting Primary Sources:

Immigration


Interpreting Statistics:

Immigrant America

Impact of Immigration Quotas

Child Labor


Recommended lesson plans:

The Gilder Lehrman Institute devoted an issue of its online journal History Now to the topic of immigration. Click here for 4 lesson plans on the subject, divided by grade level:

http://www.historynow.org/03_2005/teacher.html


Fact Check:

Quiz on the Statue of Liberty

INS Citizenship Test Questions


Primary source documents with classroom questions:

American Nativism and 19th Century Immigration
Ku Klux Klan Membership
The Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
American Literature; African American migration to the Great Plains

Timelines:

Landmarks in Immigration History

A timeline of the 19th century

A timeline of the 20th century