Thursday, Friday 26-27 September

Class began with a pop quiz:

Put the following in correct order, and write down the applicable date:

Bill of Rights 1791
Emancipation Proclamation 1863
End of the Revolutionary War 1785
End of Legal Importation of Slaves to the United States 1808

Students wrote to the prompt: "What do I want from my life?"

Next the class reviewed positive and negative (push and pull) reasons for immigration, and students compared what they want in their futures to reasons people may move from one place to another.

Next Mr. Zartler gave notes about the history of immigration to the United States.

First immigrants came from Asia during the last Ice Age
Before 1930 almost 30% of immigrants returned to their country of origin.

There are four major periods of immigration to America

1st:
1600s to 1770s
Majority of immigrants from Britain
Seeking
     economic opportunity
     religious freedom
     some convicts shipped out of England
    importation of slaves (375,000 by 1808)

2nd Wave:
1820-1870
7,000,000 immigrants
1/3 Irish (stayed in cities near the sea board)
1/3 German (often had money and moved to productive lands in the midwest)