Immigration+Past+and+Present

Immigration Unit Ms. Brown and Ms. DeSantos

I am part Vietnamese and Chinese. =)







Notes and response after reading the article about a teenager being killed at the Mexican Border.

Questions and my reactions after reading articles and watching video clips of immigration today.


 * Life of an Immigrant**

//**a. What is a tenement house? (You may have to search other sites to answer this question) -** A tenement house is a bad quality apartment in which most immigrants lived in. -** Immigration increased the population greatly and the tenement housing allowed more people to live there -** Life for new immigrants was very difficult and it involved hard labor. The tenement houses were small, dirty and uncomfortable.
 * b.. How did immigration lead to the creation of tenement housing?
 * c. What is life like for new immigrants in the early 1900's? What is life like in tenement housing?
 * d. What potential obstacles can you see for recently arrived immigrants in the early 1900s?**//
 * -** For recently arrived immigrants who arrived in the early 1900s some potential obstacles are, they can be too sick or weak to work, have no money for food and they might not be able to find a job.