About This Lesson
This lesson focuses on Chinese Immigration in the 19th Century.
Essential Question: Despite the fact that the United States has been called a nation of immigrants, why hasn’t the nation always welcomed strangers to our shores?
CCSD Benchmarks:
- 1.12 Students will assess the contributions of immigrant groups to the development of the United States.
- 2.3 Students will assess the impact of technological innovations and urbanization on society’s social and economic development
- 2.4 Students will define nativism and explain the political and social responses to immigration into the United States.
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