Scholastic
Scholastic: Immigration
Scholastic gives a detailed look at immigration to the United States from the 17th century to the present. Includes motivation for immigration and immigration restrictions and laws.
Other
Amon Carter Museum: Bound for Texas
Students will explore factors that motivated immigrants to move to certain Texas cities by locating features on Texas bird's eye views. They will then complete an art project from a townperson's perspective and/or a writing project from...
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Other
Texas Council on Economic Education: Building an Economy: Texas Experience [Pdf]
A 14-lesson, 169-page unit on the economic history of Texas. Lessons cover the free enterprise system, the economic patterns and motivations of Native Americans and various immigrant groups, the impact of the closing of the frontier, the...
PBS
Now With Bill Moyers: Starting From Behind
A lesson that helps students examine the immigrant experience from an adolescent's point of view by exploring how the American dream motivates students to succeed.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Freedom to Create (Lesson Plan)
In this lesson, students investigate the motivations of foreign-born artists who have come to America for reasons of artistic freedom. They also examine the impact these artistic refugees have had on American society as well as the...
Library of Congress
Loc: Westward Expansion: Links to the Past
Students use documents from California As I Saw It: First Person Narratives, 1849-1900, in American Memory to create a script depicting the motivations, expectations, fears, and realizations of immigrants who settled California between...
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: Mormon Migration
The sources in this set help place the Mormon migration in geographic, political, religious, and cultural contexts, including other westward movement motivated by Manifest Destiny.