Unit VII: What, Then, Is This American? ca. 1865 - 1900

Question/Problem 9: What effects did immigrants have on the United States?

Irish	Danish	Jewish	Dutch
Italian	Greek	Chinese	Scottish
Polish	English	German	Swedish
Hungarian	Ukrainian	Russian	Norwegians
Czech & Slovak

You will research your group using resources in the media center. The information you gather will be used to develop a project consisting of a poster that includes maps, other visuals, and written information. Be sure to take sufficient notes to be able to provide the information needed for your poster.

Your poster should tell:

- the ethnic or national group

- where they came from (ex. show a map)

- where they settled (ex. show a map)

- when they came to America (ex. draw a timeline or graph of decades and numbers of immigrants from that group)

- why they left their homes (ex. create a brief news article or diary entry)

- why they wanted to come to America, what America offered to them (ex. create a brief diary entry, letter to a friend, job advertisement)

- what problems they faced when they got to America (ex. write a brief letter to home, news article, or diary entry)

- what contribution(s) your group or a person from your group made to American society (ex. a news article about a real person from the group)

Your poster will be about 22" x 28" and needs to be well-planned in order to show all the above information!! Suggestions: Type your news articles. Plan the sizes of your written pieces so they will fit on the poster. Write or type the pieces on other sheets of paper, then place them on slightly larger pieces of colored paper and glue these to your poster in an attractive fashion. Your teacher can provide you with outline maps of the world, the U.S., Europe, and Asia.