Becoming a Citizen

There is huge debate whether to allow immigrants to come to the U.S. While many immigrants come to this country illegally, many immigrants try to come here through the legal system. A question arises; are immigrants worthy of becoming citizens? Take the Immigration Tests and see how you do.

Take both the Original (sample) US Citizen Test (I) the New (sample) US Citizenship Test(II). They are different tests and you have to do both. When you are finished with each, copy your score on a word file. When finished with both, answer the following questions:
1. How difficult was it for you to pass the tests?
2. If you were migrating to the U.S., would you try to become a citizen? Why or why not?
3. Would you be able to become a citizen by taking these tests?
4. What differences were there between the original test and the new test?
5. Do you feel people who are trying to become citizens SHOULD take this test? Why or why not?
6. Does this test determine how American you are? How so?
7. What also determines what an American is?
8. What do you feel makes a citizen?

When finished, go to this article and write the answers on that same sheet, then  email it to omar.amador.79@gmail.com

Who's Coming to America
1. Where were most immigrants to the US emigration from 100 years ago?

2. What percentage of immigrants were from Latin America about 100 years ago?

What about today? What do you think accounts for this change?
3. What country are most of the immigrants from and why do you think that is?

4. Who accounts for most of the immigrants today? (Continent)

5. Who were the first to mix racially in what is the US today?

6. Who were the Anglo-Saxon Protestants? Where did they come from and why?

7. Benjamin Franklin is quoted in this article. What did he say and what did he mean?
8. What are the similarities between the fears about immigration from the past and from now?
9. What is a US Census? (look up in google) What did the first US Census say? 

10. Who made most of the immigrants in the 19th Century? Where were they coming from?

11. What happened in Ireland in 1948 and what effect did it have in the U.S.?

12. Why were the Italians coming here?

13. What is Anti-Semitism and how did that play a role in Jewish migration?

14. What immigrant groups has the lowest income today?

15. What lessons can we learn about the past and how can we apply them to today?