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Unit 2, Assignment #1 of 3:  Immigration, 1870-1920 Immigration profoundly shaped the United States in the half century spanning 1870-1920. Click Immigration to 1920 above to view a statistical table on immigration, and answer the questions below. 1.  Approximately seven million immigrants came to the United States between 1820 and 1869. About how many people came from all countries to the USA between 1870 and 1920, inclusive? What factors account for the difference between those two fifty-year periods?  2.  Immigrants from what countries arrived in six-digit figures after 1900? What did that mean for the United States? 3.  What year showed the biggest drop in overall immigration from any previous year? Why was this? Unit 2, Assignment #2 of 3:  The 1920 Census Click 1920 Census A and 1920 Census B (together they make one census page of twenty-nine columns) to view a Chicago neighborhood in 1920, and answer the questions below. 1. a) How many families were represented? Explain how you determined your answer.     b) How many heads of families were born in the USA? In light of your answer to Question 1a, what does your answer to 1b tell us?     c) Characterize the ethnicity (not race) of the neighborhood. 2. a) What columns (give the column title or content description, not the column number) would be the most useful in determining the socioeconomic (class) standing of the neighborhood? Why those columns?      b) Based on your answer to Question 2a, describe the social class of this neighborhood, being sure to explain your answer. 3. Create a profile of the women who had a paying occupation:  what did they have in common? Draw conclusions from your observations.   Unit 2, Assignment #3 of 3:  Eisenhower Reading As French control in Southeast Asia wavered, American policymakers had to decide what role the United States should play in the region. Click the Eisenhower Reading link above to read President Eisenhower’ letter to Alfred Gruenther, who had been Eisenhower’s Chief of Staff at NATO, and the diary entry of the president’s press secretary, James Hagerty, and then answer the questions below. 1. What were Eisenhower’s primary concerns in considering the situation at Dien Bien Phu and deciding whether to commit American forces? 2. Discuss whether it seemed likely that Eisenhower would commit American ground forces in Southeast Asia. What might the consequences be if American planes were used to support the French? 3. Containing the spread of communism, in Southeast Asia or anywhere else, was a central component of U.S. foreign policy after World War II. Should it have been? Explain your answer.