Reference no: EM133063956

Discussion Questions

1. Who were the immigrants who came to the US from 1880 to 1921? Were they mostly EC457/857 The Huddled Masses: "The Immigrant in American Society 1880-1921" by Alan M. Kraut for reference male or female? Were they middle age or young? (p. 17) How did those immigrating change after 1900? Why did American immigration officers often refer to these immigrants as "birds of passage?" 

2. According to Kraut, before 1850, the process of emigrating was casual, and documentation haphazardly kept. Later in the century, immigration officials became more concerned with protecting American from the potential dangers that immigrants might bring. Discus the evolution of immigration laws in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and who they were intended to prevent from coming to the US.