We Are Americans Voices Of The Immigrant Experience

by Hoobler, Thomas; Hoobler, Dorothy

• ISBN13: 9780439162975
• ISBN10: 0439162971
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Scholastic Nonfiction

Summary

We Are Americans tells the stories of immigrants in their own words. Letters, diaries, oral histories, and biographies describe their dreams for a new life, their journeys to America, and their successes and hardships once they arrived. Immigrants describe what it was like to become part of their new country: schooling, religious practices, new food, and often entirely new customs.

Table of Contents

Introduction	6	(2)
CHAPTER ONE: The First Immigrants	8	(12)
Coming to Prehistoric America	10	(2)
Different Ways of Life Develop	12	(4)
Encounters with Europeans	16	(4)
CHAPTER TWO: Colonial Immigration	20	(18)
The First Colonies	22	(4)
Coming to Colonial America	26	(4)
Living in a Multicultural Community	30	(4)
New France	34	(2)
Spanish Colonies	36	(2)
CHAPTER THREE: What Is an American?	38	(10)
From War, a New Nation	40	(4)
Early Immigration	44	(4)
CHAPTER FOUR: America Fever	48	(16)
Coming to the Young United States	50	(6)
Going to Work	56	(4)
Life in America	60	(4)
CHAPTER FIVE: From Sea to Sea	64	(14)
Settling in the Midwest.	66	(4)
Texas	70	(2)
Moving West	72	(2)
The Golden State	74	(4)
CHAPTER SIX: Division and Reunion	78	(20)
The Civil War	80	(4)
Binding the Nation Together	84	(2)
Homesteading the Prairies	86	(6)
Prosperity and Poverty	92	(6)
CHAPTER SEVEN: Streets Paved with Gold	98	(18)
The New Immigrants	100	(4)
Ports of Entry	104	(6)
Going to Work	110	(6)
CHAPTER EIGHT: Immigrant Communities	116	(16)
Neighborhoods	118	(4)
Family	122	(4)
Religions	126	(2)
Schools	128	(2)
Becoming American	130	(2)
CHAPTER NINE: The Golden Door Closes	132	(12)
A Change in Immigration	134	(4)
The Great Migration	138	(2)
Immigrants Still Come	140	(4)
CHAPTER TEN: Immigrants at a Trickle	144	(14)
The Depression	146	(2)
A World at War	148	(4)
The Post-War Years	152	(6)
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Coming to America Today	158	(16)
A New Approach	160	(2)
People Fleeing Oppression	162	(4)
Illegal Immigration	166	(4)
Sweatshops to High-Tech	170	(4)
CHAPTER TWELVE: A New America	174	(14)
Neighborhoods and Family	176	(4)
School	180	(2)
Religion	182	(2)
A Nation of Nations	184	(4)
Further Reading	188	(1)
Index	189	(4)
Art Credits	193	(1)
Text Sources and Credits	193