Midterm Questions

The Midterm Exam will be on Wednesday, 10/15. It will consist of three (3) essay questions that will cover broad themes of immigration and ethnic history. The questions will require you to include evidence from more than one chapter of the textbook. The questions will take 15 minutes to answer on average. The exam will be open-book and open-note. 

Here are suggestions questions/topics for the exam from today's class meeting:

1. Laws/tendencies of immigration
2. Refugees
3. Myths of immigrations (related to #1)
4. Why do some ethnic groups assimilate while others' cultures persist?
5. Immigration legislation: what/when/why?
6. Nativism: when and why?
7. British cultural domination and Angloconformity
8. How has the "means" changed
9. Involuntary immigration
10. Chronology of immigration--who came when
11. Patterns of jobs and businesses of immigrants 

Please review these topics this weekend. We will finalize the questions on Monday.