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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.

  1. Census Bureau: www.census.gov
  2. National Archives: http://www.nara.gov
  3. Immigration and Naturalization Service: www.ins.gov
  4. National Geographic: http://www.nationalgeographic.org
    National Geographic Xpeditions
    National Geography Standards with Lesson Plans on Immigration
    Human Migration within the United States
  5. PBS: http://www.pbs.org
  6. Geographic Information Systems
  7. Ellis Island: http://www.ellisisland.org
  8. University of Texas: www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/hist_sites
  9. History Channel: www.historychannel.com
  10. Library of Congress American Memory Search Engine: (Type in Immigration and you can view 500 primary sources) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mdbquery.html
  11. Find law: www.findlaw.com
  12. White House: www.whitehouse.gov follow link to citizen’s handbook
  13. A list of related sites on immigration: http://dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Immigration/
  14. Ellis Island simulation from Interact: Website sample http://capital.net/~alta/
  15. Federation for American Immigration Reform: Immigration Quota System
    http://www.fairus.org/html/04114604.htm


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