The Immigrant Experience in the United States
The following list is a beginning for the Internet Resources available.
More Sites can be found in the individual lessons.
- Census Bureau: www.census.gov
- National Archives: http://www.nara.gov
- Immigration and Naturalization Service: www.ins.gov
- National Geographic: http://www.nationalgeographic.org
National Geographic Xpeditions
National Geography Standards with Lesson Plans on Immigration
Human Migration within the United States
- PBS: http://www.pbs.org
- Geographic Information Systems
- Ellis Island: http://www.ellisisland.org
- University of Texas: www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/hist_sites
- History Channel: www.historychannel.com
- Library of Congress American Memory Search Engine:
(Type in Immigration and you can view 500 primary sources)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mdbquery.html
- Find law: www.findlaw.com
- White House: www.whitehouse.gov follow link to citizen’s handbook
- A list of related sites on immigration:
http://dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Immigration/
- Ellis Island simulation from Interact: Website sample http://capital.net/~alta/
- Federation for American Immigration Reform:
Immigration Quota System
http://www.fairus.org/html/04114604.htm
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