Curriculum: New Land… New Beginnings… New York: The Story of Immigration in New York


Cover		 Description: Students familiarize themselves with primary source documents relating to immigration and discover key concepts about the process of immigration.

Learning goals:

  • Become familiar with the use of primary sources to gain information about historical events, eras, and processes
  • Become aware of the process of immigration and the ways of life of American immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries
  • Write an essay discussing the motivations for immigrating, the experience of immigration, and the maintenance of immigrants’ cultural traditions

Publication date: 2001

Number of pages: 25 (teacher guide – 9; student DBQ – 16)

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