6/7 Latino Immigration!

Latino Immigration WebQuest

Please write the answers in your HJ


Mexican Immigration:


Go to http://www.pbs.org/kpbs/theborder/history/timeline/17.html

1. Remember when we studied Westward Expansion (Oh what fun! Those games! Trips to the museum! “This land is your land, This land is my land!” The sad parts about how the Native Americans and Chinese were treated –and the happy parts about how they rose above). Now also remember that we studied the Mexican American War and America gained California, Arizona, New Mexico, and other states during this time (we were getting bigger and bigger). This will be important to remember when you do this task. Read the first few paragraphs at this website and draw a timeline that starts in 1850 and goes until 1964 - list all of the key events. It should include: push factors, what the Mexicans did when they came here, why they came here, why they were pushed out, and when they were invited in again – all with dates attached (1850, 1880, 1910, 1920, 1924, 1930, 1942, 1964).

2. What was the Bracero Program? Why did it start? What changed because of it? How were workers treated?

3. Why did the American government “flip flop” on it’s immigration policy towards Mexico?

4. Go to: http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/themes/story_51_3.html

Read the story. Write two postcards “back home to Mexico” about two different experiences that Juana Gallegos went through.


Puerto Rican Migration:

Go to http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/cuban3.html

5. Why don’t we call it immigration when Puerto Ricans come here? In what ways is it like immigration and in what ways is it different?

6. When did the most Puerto Ricans start coming to America and why?

7. Why didn’t they come sooner?

8. Where did Puerto Ricans settle when they came to America?

9. What was life like in Puerto Rican communities here?

10. What were three political movements that Puerto Ricans started here?

11 . Create your own web quest questions! Pick ONE of any of the below immigrant groups, go to the websites I list, and write three questions that you would have included on this web quest about them. Explain why you think they are important questions to ask.

Dominicans: http://www.everyculture.com/multi/Bu-Dr/Dominican-Americans.html

Cubans: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/cuban5.html