Activities for Table 3 This table shows the large increase in numbers of immigrants from Asia and Latin America between 1960-1990. It also demonstrates the relative decline in emigrants from European countries and the relatively few immigrants from African nations. Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and Latin America. Students can also break down the trends more precisely by choosing various countries from each of the five regions. Bar graphs can be constructed from this data as well.
Students can analyze trends by region or by country.
Where there are great increase or decreases in a ten-year period, students can construct hypotheses or questions to address why these dramatic changes occurred. Other countries saw growth in immigration during this time, but not nearly such exponential growth. It also includes data between 1850-1930 as well. Students can do the same activities they did for the data from Table 3 for the data found in Table 4. The data show that most immigration occurred from Ireland and Germany in the last decades of the 19th century and that immigration patterns shifted at the turn of the century to include more people from Italy, Russia, and Poland.