Chapter 26: Toward a New Century "The Immigration Equation"

Introduction
Students have read about how immigration continues to impact the United States as the nation enters the twenty-first century. In this lesson, students will learn more about historic and recent immigration patterns to America.

Lesson Description
Students will visit the Immigration and Naturalization Service Web site and examine various tables regarding immigration to the United States. They will then answer questions about the tables.

Instructional Objective
Students will be able to interpret tables in order to answer questions about the information they contain.

Student Web Activity Answers
1. Mexico—163,572; Mexico borders the United States, so immigrants do not have far to travel.
2. 63,140,227; Germany—7,142,393
3. 30,656
4. An immigrant leaves a land voluntarily, while a refugee is someone who usually has been forced to flee his or her home; the former Soviet Union; there has been much turmoil in the former Soviet Union since the collapse of communism.

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