For Monday's class, please read the Introduction and Chapter 1 of
American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction, and prepare written answers to the following questions:
- What binds the American people together if not a common genealogy? (1)
- What are the three great waves of immigration that reconfigured the population? (2)
- For what three reasons may things be different for recent immigrants? (3)
- What do "nativists" and "pluralists" argue about? (4)
- What is the question ultimately? (5) And what is the answer many cannot accept? (6)
- What are the three parts of the book? (12)
- Define "nativism" (15); are there legitimate reasons for restricting immigration? (16)
- What was the principal rationale for a liberal immigration policy for first 150 years of European presence in North America? (18)
- What are the provisions of the Naturalization Law of 1795 and the 14th Amendment? (19)
- What gave rise to reactive nativist policies in the mid-1800s?
- Why 21 year for naturalization? (22)
- Who was barred from entry by legislation passed between 1864 and 1917? (23)
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