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Immigrants’ Rights Inquiry (Educator Materials)

Essential Question: How does a democracy address racial, gender, and socioeconomic inequalities?

  • Compelling Question: Do Americans live in a “nation of immigrants?”

Supporting Questions:

  • SQ1: Have immigrants imagined America as a “melting pot” or a “salad bowl,” and why?
  • SQ 2: How have opponents of immigration in America shifted their views and methods over time?
  • SQ 3: How have proponents of immigration in America shifted their views and methods over time?
  • SQ 4: How have immigrants built community and identity in a new nation?