Immigration Debate – The 1920s
The Assignment
The assignment for HIST 1302 Common Assignment – Part 2 is to use the given documents to provide arguments for a historical argument. In this case, we are using the 4 given documents as well as the resources for historical context from Section 1 to evaluate the immigration debate of the 1920s. You will need to read and understand the primary and secondary sources that you are given here. The resources above, as well as your feedback from HIST 1302 Common Assignment – Part 1 are essential in completing this step. You are not asked here to write out your understanding of the documents as you were in Part 1, but you will need to have a full understanding of the four documents to complete this assignment.
You have been given:
- One primary source document that argues against immigration in the 1920s — Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “Is America Too Hospitable?” The Forum, October 1923, pp. 1983-1989
- One primary source document that argues for immigration in the 1920s — John E. Milholland, “Immigration Hysteria in Congress” The Forum, January 1921, pp. 68-76
- Two secondary sources that look at the arguments for and against immigration in the 1920s — Ngai, Mae M. “Nationalism, Immigration Control, and the Ethnoracial Remapping of America in the 1920s.” and Allerfeldt, Kristofer. “‘And We Got Here First’: Albert Johnson, National Origins and Self-Interest in the Immigration Debate of the 1920s.”
Immigration Debate – The 1920s
Your assignment is to lay out the arguments for and against immigration restriction in the 1920s, and you will complete it through these steps:
- Using the sources, you will identify three major arguments for immigration restriction in the 1920s and three main ideas arguments against immigration restriction in the 1920s.
- For the three ideas of each argument, you will provide the following:
- In which document or documents did you find the idea.
- Either a passage or quotation that you used to identify that idea.
- With this, you need to both give the passage or quotation and provide the page number(s) where you found the passage or quotation
- For the three ideas of each argument, you will provide the following:
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- Using that information, you will be asked to bring these ideas into two written responses, one explaining what the arguments for immigration restriction in the 1920s were and one explaining what the arguments against immigration restriction in the 1920s were.
- Each response should be 1-2 paragraphs long (around 200-400 words).
- Each will need to make direct reference to the sources given in this assignment and will need to use direct evidence in the form of quotations or direct paraphrasing from the sources.
- You are also welcome to use any other classroom resources that are in Section 1 to help explain the two positions. Any direct references or paraphrasing need to be given an in-text citation, although a Works Cited is not required for this assignment.
- You are NOT allowed to use any sources for this assignment outside of those given in the assignment here unless specifically allowed to by your professor. The articles here provide everything you need to complete the assignment, and no other sources or resources are allowed in completing the assignment. Use APA referencing style.
- Using that information, you will be asked to bring these ideas into two written responses, one explaining what the arguments for immigration restriction in the 1920s were and one explaining what the arguments against immigration restriction in the 1920s were.
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