Publisher's Synopsis
With this workbook, teachers can turn the classroom into a lively forum for discussing the high-impact issue of immigration policy in the United States.
Triumph and Tragedy: Immigration offers teachers a way to give their coverage of immigration policy in the United States a compelling immediacy.
Central to the workbook are its two defining moments studies: the first on the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882), which codified racial prejudice toward Chinese immigrants and reversed the United States's "open door" policy of unlimited immigration; the second on the Bracero Program, a series of agreements between the United States and Mexico that established a temporary worker program for Mexican farm labors in the southwestern United States. As students work through the case studies, drawing on the wealth of background material provided, they will learn to think critically about the evolving relationship between the immigrant population and the government that regulates it.
A chronology marking the waves and cycles of immigration in the United States, from the "open door" era of the 19th century to the "storm door" era of the present
A rich collection of primary sources including first-person accounts from Chinese immigrants and Mexican braceros, historical photographs, and more
