Directions: This assignment will count as a grade. Please review “How to Properly Submit a Graded Assignment” on Info #4 before you hand this in. Answer the following based on the photos, Document A and your knowledge of social studies. Complete sentences are not required.

Document A

1a. Identify the type of housing shown in the photos.

1b. Who typically lived in this type of housing?

2a. In Document A the Polish immigrant says, “But my friends are polish people, I must
live with them. I work in the shoe – shop with polish people, I stay all the time
with them at home, in the shop, anywhere.”
Identify the subject of this quote.

2b. Identify why immigrants lived in these type of areas when they first arrived in the
United States.

3a. According to Document A, what does the Polish man feel immigrants must do in order to
be a “good american citizen?”

3b. Identify a specific reason from Document A why this has been difficult for him.

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Answer the following based on the cartoons and your knowledge of social studies. Complete sentences are not required.

Cartoon A

The title of this cartoon is “Looking Backward.” They would close
to the new - comer the bridge that carried their fathers over.
Behind each man stands the shadow of his own immigrant
ancestor.

Cartoon B

4a. What belief is the subject of both cartoons?

4b. Does the cartoonist who drew Cartoon A support this belief or is he against it?

4c. Give specific evidence from Cartoon A to support your answer to 4b.

5. Identify the popular character who appears in Cartoon B, and identify the country he
represents.

6. Identify the law that is the subject of Cartoon B.

7. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, prejudice against new immigrants increased mainly
because these immigrants
(1) came from cultural backgrounds different from most Americans.
(2) tried to replace American democracy with their own form of government.
(3) formed their own labor unions in order to receive higher wages.
(4) had job skills superior to those of most American workers.