1. Identify the main global sources of immigration to the U.S . 1. Identify the main global sources of immigration to the U.S. before the 1890s, and identify the emerging new sources of mass immigration to the U.S. as the 19th century gave way to the 20th. 2. Explain why the story of immigration in the late-19th century is not exclusively an American (U.S.) story, and identify the other major destinations of European immigrants at this time. 3. Describe the procedure by which new immigrant arrivals to the U.S. were processed at Ellis Island and Angel Island, and explain why initial efforts to assimilate immigrants were made at the first facility but not at the second. 4. Contrast the patterns of 19th-century Chinese immigration with those of other immigrant groups, and explain why the Chinese experience and Chinese communities evolved in distinctively different directions from the others. 5. Describe the urban conditions in which millions of immigrants lived in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, and explain how immigrant communities and families responded to the demands of living in the industrial city. 6. Explain the concept of the family economy, and compare it to other examples how urban immigrant neighborhoods stressed cooperation for survival through their relationships and their cultural and political institutions. 7. Characterize the experience of immigrant childhood that prevailed in Americas industrial cities, including the relationships children typically shared with their local economies and the larger society. 8. Evaluate the degree to which immigrant childhood in the industrial city offered new opportunities for the expression of individualism through work roles and leisure opportunities. 9. Describe the nativist backlash against the new immigrants that gained momentum in the late-19th and early 20th centuries, and identify its main fears, targets, and agendas. HistoryUS History HIST 1302
