This will be your primary homework for the week April 3-April 10. Due to the wealth of internet sites on the Internet I feel this is a valuable opportunity for you to learn more about immigration throughout American history. Please use the sites located under "Emergence of Modern America" which is attached to our home page. Except where noted, all of your answers MUST be in your OWN WORDS. These POWs will be worth 60 points.

1. According to the Chinese Exclusion Act, what did Chinese laborers endanger?

2. What was the fine for a vessel carrying Chinese immigrants?

3. According to Section 15 of the Chinese Exclusion Act, which Chinese are considered Chinese laborers?

4. What are the dimensions of the Statue of Liberty?

5. How was the Statue of Liberty shipped to America?

6. Which part of the Statue of Liberty was America in charge of creating?

7. How was money raised for building the Statue of Liberty?

8. What did the completion date of the Statue of Liberty honor?

9. How long is the Statue of Liberty's nose?

Look at the pictures of the Statue of Liberty and be happy

Go to "From One Life to Another". Go to the "Everything Tour" and then go to the "Slideshow"

Make one complete sentence for each picture. Use as specific words as possible to describe the picture.

10. Atlantic Liner:

11. Emigrants coming to the land of freedom:

12. Welcome to the land of freedom:

13. Immigrants at Ellis Island:

14. Four emigrants...:

15. Italian immigrant family at Ellis Island:

16. Examination Hall, Ellis Island:

Extra Credit Opportunity: Look at the top of the page above the Ellis Island pictures. Click on the section marked "Challenge". Take the "Life Quiz". Once you score 100 points, push the print button on your computer and bring in your printout.

Go to the section marked "Letters from a Teenager"

17. In the letter marked "Rockton, the 20th of September, 1896" how does Fritz describe the picture of her sister?

18. In the same entry, describe what happened with the Fritz great mail disaster.

19. Describe the Theodore's state in the entry marked "probably August, 1889"

Go to the section marked "Modern Immigration Policy"

20. What does Steven A. Camarota say about the progress of the recent wave of immigrants?

21. What is the immigration rate in California and New York?

22. What does the report state will occur with the "increasing of the number of poor people"?

Go to the article titled "Myth of the Melting Pot"

23. What does Jacinto say has to happen before she becomes an American?

24. What is the national motto?

25. What reasons are given for not assimilating?

26. Which group will become the largest minority in America within the next 7 years?

Go to the section marked "Ethnic Data"

27. If this data table represents all of America, what is the problem with the categories listed?

28. If the educational attainment, shows the highest level of education achieved, which group has the largest percentage of college graduates for their ethnic group?

29. What might "Other families with children" mean?

30. Which group has the largest percentage of people not married?