Unit+Assessment

1. Explain xenophobia, compare xenophobes from the late 18th and early 19th centuries and xenophobes today.

2. What is the Occupy Wall Street Movement? How does it compare to the latter scenes of “Gangs of New York”?

3. Today undocumented (or "illegal") immigrants, are overwhelmingly employed in sectors of the economy paying low wages, offering little job security, and few or no benefits. How is this the same or different from the late 18th and early 19th centuries?

4. What is a Political Machine? why were people willing to let them exist?

5. Has immigration benefited or detracted from America? Explain and give details?

6. During the 18th and early 19th centuries employers readily employed children and paid very low wages, does this still go on in the world today? Where? How does the public look upon this activity?

7. What is a labor union? are they a positive or a negative? explain and back up your answer.

8. Why were some immigrants considered “birds of passage”, how would Americans feel about them?

9. What is graft? does it still go on today? Give one real life example.

10. Why did immigrants settle together? What was the benefit? How did Natives look at this?

11. Explain who Jane Addams was and what she did.