Alabama Social Studies SS24.HG.9a
The Standard
- SS24.HG.9
- Identify and explain world migration patterns caused by forced displacement throughout history.
Explain the causes and effects of the migration of various ethnic groups to the United States.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Migration and Settlement
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain why different groups left their homes and came to the United States. They describe how those arrivals changed jobs, neighborhoods, culture, or laws in specific places.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can link the Irish potato famine to migration and the growth of Irish neighborhoods in U.S. cities. They can explain why Vietnamese refugees left after 1975 and how Vietnamese communities grew in California.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume everyone moved for work, overlooking famine, war, and persecution. They may confuse a reason for leaving with an effect of arrival, or assume every group received the same welcome.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, ask: Why did many Irish people migrate in the 1840s, and why did many Vietnamese people leave after 1975? Name one effect each group's arrival had on a U.S. community.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a blank world map and four short migration cards about Irish, Chinese, Mexican, and Vietnamese arrivals; have them draw routes and label causes.
Ask students to write: How did the reasons Irish families left in the 1840s differ from the reasons Vietnamese families left after 1975?
Match potato famine, railroad jobs, farm work, and postwar persecution to Irish, Chinese, Mexican, and Vietnamese migration; add one U.S. effect per match.
Open a map of Little Saigon in Westminster, California; students list three businesses or services that show how Vietnamese settlement shaped the area.
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