1.Read the following Claim:
Push Pull factors is one area that affected immigrants and other Americans in the late 19th and early 20th century.
2. Research and Cite ( the document resource evidence below)by using the sentences starter.
According to _________ it states that ________________.
3. Create a one sentence reasoning to the claim and evidence mentioned above.
DOCUMENT RESOURCES:
Document A: Excerpt from The Constitution of the Immigration Restriction League, 1894
Introduction
Attitudes toward the new immigration during the late 1800s and early 1900s were strong and varied. Some families and communities welcomed the new immigrants with open arms and helped immigrants get settled, while other groups such as the Immigration Restriction League—founded in 1894 by three Harvard graduates—formed to limit or curtail immigration.
Primary Source
“The objects of this League shall be to advocate and work for the further judicious restriction or stricter regulation of immigration, to issue documents and circulars, solicit facts and information on that subject, hold public meetings, and to arouse public opinion to the necessity of a further exclusion of elements undesirable for citizenship or injurious to our national character. It is not an object of this League to advocate the exclusion of laborers or other immigrants of such character and standards as fit them to become
According to The Constitution of the Immigration Restriction League, 1894, it states that the league's objective was to advocate for stricter regulation of immigration and to exclude elements undesirable for citizenship.
One sentence of reasoning for the claim and evidence mentioned above is that the push and pull factors of immigration in the late 19th and early 20th century led to debates and organizations like the Immigration Restriction League advocating for stricter immigration policies.