Part II: US Migration History

Part II of this course looks more closely at the historical experiences of several immigrant groups including the early Chinese, early Mexicans, Irish, Germans, Italians, and Eastern European Jews. We also look more closely a the Great Migration-- the mass movement of African Americans from the US South into northern and western states-- as an example of internal migration.  

Here, we're looking for commonalities of experience between and across groups. We also investigate how the arrival of each group impacted each other as well as the native-born. Questions we ask in this section include

• • who came?

  • why did they come?

  • into what kind of society did immigrant groups arrive?

  • how were the received?