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= Unit Teams 2011 =

How have immigrants responded to pressures to assimilate? (1880-1920)
 * Year 3 Theme**

How have immigrants fought for American citizenship?
 * Overarching Focus**

How did immigrants define becoming American?
 * ==Grade3:== || ===== **Conceptual Question:** =====

**Rationale Linked to Frameworks:**

 * Which old country customs did immigrants maintain in America?
 * What were the organizations they created to preserve their traditions?
 * What were their contributions to America?

3.7

 * After reading a biography of a person from Massachusetts in one of the following categories, summarize the person’s life and achievements.
 * e. political leadership (e.g., John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Susan B. Anthony, Edward Brooke, Benjamin Franklin, John F. Kennedy, Paul Revere)

3.9

 * Identify historic buildings, monuments, or sites in the area and explain their purpose and significance. ||
 * ==Grade 5== || ===== **Conceptual Question:** =====
 * How did immigrants obtain political power?

**Rationale Linked to Frameworks:**

 * What is assimilation?
 * What were employers' and reformers' “Americanization” programs for immigrants?
 * How did they respond to these?

5.27

 * Explain how American citizens were expected to participate in, monitor, and bring about changes in their government over time, and give examples of how they continue to do so today. ||
 * ==Grade 8-10== || ===== **Conceptual Question:** =====
 * How has immigration contributed to the narrowing and expansion of American civic ideals?

**Rationale Linked to Frameworks**:

 * How did most US citizens view immigrants during the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
 * What prompted these attitudes? How did anti-immigrant sentiment guide local and state policymaking?
 * How did ethnocentrism and U.S. foreign policy shape the nation's immigration policies?

**Learning Standards**
USI.15
 * Explain the varying roles and responsibilities of federal, state, and local governments in the United States.

USI.20

 * USI.20 Explain the evolution and function of political parties, including their role in federal, state, and local elections.

USII.6

 * Analyze the causes and course of America’s growing role in world affairs from the Civil War to World War I. ||

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