Answer each question based on Chapter 9 in Occupied America in a paragraph consisting of at least 5 sentences each. You may use other resources to assist you in answering the questions but list sources (Bibliography) at the end of page.
1. In the context of immigration history, what is a push factor? What do immigration historians mean by uprooting? What economic transformations pushed Mexicans into the Southwest from Mexico?
2. In the context of immigration history, what is a pull factor? What economic transformations in the U.S. pulled Mexicans into the Southwest at the turn of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th? Why do they migrate to Chicago?
3. What is eugenics? What role did it play in the formation of U.S. immigration policy? Refer to the national origins provisions in the 1924 Immigration Act.
4. What is nativism? (Go to the dictionary and define American nativism).
Discuss Nativist origins reaching back to the Alien and Sedition Acts of the 1790s. What would the reaction be to large numbers of Mexicans entering the country?
5. Describe Mexican immigration to the U.S. before and after 1910. Consider the Mexican Revolution as well as increasing urbanization.
6. Among the Japanese, generations were described as Issei (first), Nisei (second), and Sansei(third) generations. Describe the characteristics of each group. How would these generational differences apply to U.S. Mexicans?
7. Discuss changes in the composition and nature of Chicano organizations. What role did the Mexican Revolution play? What role did World War I play? Compare the pre-1920 Mexican community when it was heavily immigrant to the community as it became more urban and U.S. born.
8. What are national origins? Why is it said to be social engineering? Is it related to eugenics? Immigration in the United States – 1900s.
9. Discuss the 1921 and 1924 Immigration Acts. Why weren’t Mexicans placed on a quota? What would the impact have been if they would had been placed on a quota? What was the reaction of nativist during the debates?
10. Discuss the formation of the League of United Latin American Citizens. Why was it important? Put it into the context of Americanization or nativism.
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