Chapter 3: Key Issue 3

Why Do Migrants Face Obstacles?

1. What did the Quota Act (1921) and the National Origins Act (1924) do?

2. How did they favor immigration from certain regions?

3. How did the Immigration Act of 1965 change existing quota laws?

4. How was immigration law further changed in 1978?

5. U.S. immigration law gives preferences to three groups. Identify them:a.

b.

c.

6. Prepare notes on three case studies of immigration on this page and the following page.

Cuba

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Haiti

Vietnam

Fold the page at the line and glue this part into your notebook.

Chapter 3 Key Issue 3

Copy this activity into your notebook under the reading activity for Key Issue 3

Carefully read the section “Cultural Problems faced while in other countries” and afterward, complete the Double Bubble Map below to compare and contrast attitudes in the U.S. and Europe toward immigrants.

U.S. attitudes to immigrants

European attitudes to immigrants