Read Defectives in the Land: Disability and American Immigration Policy, 1882-1924, by Douglas Baynton in The Journal of American Ethnic History (2005). You can find this article in the weekly folder or through the library. Then answer the questions below, using complete sentences. Number your responses. The response to each question should be a paragraph in length. Double-space your work.
1. What barriers to admission are typically identified by historians?
2. Explain what immigration officials meant when they used the defective label.
3. Why did immigration authorities prevent such people with disabilities from entering the US?
4. Explain how people with disabilities were screened prior to arriving in the US.
5. How did these concepts about defectiveness play into the development of the quota laws?
