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Study Guide Post War Immigrant America: A Social History by Reed Ueda
1. What technological advances helped the United States become history’s first "worldwide" immigration country in the 20th century?
2. What percentage of immigrants since the founding of the country arrived in the 20th century?
3. From the early nineteenth to the early twentieth, the United States attracted what percentage of the worlds immigrants?
4. Demographically, what was the major difference in the immigration to the United States as compared to other immigration countries such as Australia and Canada?
B) As compared to immigration to Latin American
countries 5. Compare the ethnic/variety of immigration
to the United States in the early twentieth century to the late
twentieth century..
6. According to Figure I., What time period
was the higher percentage of immigrants admitted? B) What period had the LEAST? 7. List 5 major world nations that have
no tradition of immigration
8. What does Oscar Handlin describe as
the immigration process (uprooting) "A trauma that left a
permanent scar"?
9. In which ways did American immigrants
create a society differing fundamentally from their old societies?
10. How did immigration create the American
nation and define its role in world history?
11. List & Describe what Ueda calls the 3 waves of U.S. immigration. A) B) C) 12. What was the cardinal ethnic factor
transforming the American nation from the birth of the Industrial
Revolution to the Great Depression? Explain.
13. What is the difference in geographical
origins between the labels "Old Immigrant and "New Immigrant"?
14. From which country did the: a) Old immigrants come from? b) New immigrants come from? 15. From what geographic region did the first mass migration from outside Europe come?
b) Which specific countries?
16. List the chronological time periods
for each group.
17. How did the pattern of immigration
for Asians resemble the New Immigration?
18. How did "debt servitude" effect Mexican immigration?
19. Describe the "circulating flow"
of West Indian immigration to the U.S. 1900-1930.
20. Explain key push factors like population
expansion and regional economic stagnancy.
21. Explain key pull factors that brought
immigration to specific areas within the United States.
22. Explain the process of "chain
migration".
23. Using specific Historical data explain
the difference between Linear and "Long Swing" immigration
to the U.S.
24. Discuss the "time-shape"
of immigration and the American economy.
25. Explain how a rate of immigration is
determined. Why is it important?
26. What was the age and gender of most
immigrants?
27. What were other immigrant receiving countries? A) B) C) D)
E) 28. In the period of 1820-1900, what was
the largest occupational group?
29. What is "return migration"?
30. Which groups were more likely to be return migrants?
B) Why?
C) How prevalent was it?
31. Which groups had the highest proportions
of skilled workers?
32. Compare illiteracy between "old" and "new" immigrants.
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