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The Rising Tide of Immigration
Interactive Slide Lecture
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Overview
This Interactive Slide Lecture introduces
students to the period of greatest immigration to the United
States (1865–1915), an era that set the stage for the
industrialization and urbanization of America. In this activity
students explore the causes of this great immigration, the
circumstances under which immigrants came to this country,
and the immigrants’ living and working conditions. Students
will also investigate the changing nature of this wave of
immigration and the attitudes encountered by the immigrants
when they arrived in America. Students will accomplish this
by viewing and interacting with a series of ten transparencies.
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Materials You Will Need to Teach the Activity
Any student handouts, overhead
transparencies, student information, or placards mentioned
in these procedures are available by ordering the United
States History to 1900 Sampler.
Objectives
Students will be able to
• describe the experiences of turn-of-the-century immigrants during their
journey to, and arrival in, the United States
• describe the living and working conditions of immigrants around the turn
of the century
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