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Do Now: Recap Be prepared to feedback your responses to the 5 focus questions from Foner.

Explore the impact of immigration policies, government attitudes, and external influences on public reactions to immigration. Analyze the significance of the number of immigrants entering the country as a factor. Conduct research and chart trends to support your arguments.

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Do Now: Recap Be prepared to feedback your responses to the 5 focus questions from Foner.

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  1. Correct in green pen. Do Now: Recap Be prepared to feedback your responses to the 5 focus questions from Foner.

  2. How far do you agree that the number of immigrants entering the country was the most significant factor in public reactions to immigration? [20] underlined It’s a question, so it needs a ? LOs: 1. To recall changes in immigration policies 1917-1965 2. To explain the impact of changes in attitudes and foreign affairs on immigration policies 1965-80 3. To assess the relative importance of different influences on immigration policy 1917-80.

  3. Task one: Recap Use the hand out to summarise government attitudes to immigration in each period so far: Pre-1917 – Abi, Katherine 1917-39 - Archie and Matt 1940s – Alfie, Dan 1950s and 60s – Darcy, Leoni Challenge: What factors influence legislation in your period? Unemployment, illegal immigration, Geography, External influences, Foreign affairs, domestic politics, The media, the president?

  4. Task two: How did government policies change during the 1970s? Use the hand out to answer the following questions: Why had the quota system outlives its usefulness? What did JFK argue in A Nation of Immigrants? What did the 1965 Hart-Celler Act do? What was the impact of the Vietnam War on immigration? What was the government response to Hispanic immigration in 1976? What problems did illegal immigration cause during the 1970s? Challenge: What factors influence legislation the 1970s? Unemployment, illegal immigration, Geography, External influences, Foreign affairs, domestic politics, The media, the president?

  5. Task three: How far do you agree that the number of immigrants entering the country was the most significant factor in public reactions to immigration? [20] Sort the factors into for and against the statement the number of immigrants were a significant factor Read page 78. Find / think of examples of the following influences on immigration policy ACROSS the whole period: the political ideology of the presidents domestic politics The media Unemployment illegal immigration Geography Foreign affairs Challenge: Chart the trends of the number of immigrants and the extent of restrictions on your graph. Use two colours for two lines and see how far they correlate.

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