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3. Compare the ”old” and the ”new” immigration in 1882. (Ellwood, page 217.)
4. Compare the ”old” and the ”new” immigration in 1907. (Ellwood, page 218.)
5. What are the three most important groups of immigrants at the present time? (Burch and Patterson, pages 108-111.)
6. What is the extent of illiteracy among the immigrant population?
(Burch and Patterson, pages 115-116.)
7. Discuss the occupational distribution of immigrants. (Ellwood, pages 223-224.)
8. What is the ”racial” argument against unrestricted immigration?
(Ellwood, pages 234-235.)
9. How can the average citizen help in the Americanization movement?
(Roberts, pages 45-47.)
10. Why should the Americanization worker make himself familiar with the condition under which the immigrant works? (Roberts, pages 48-53.)
11. What is the significance of the club life of immigrant groups?
(Roberts, pages 57-61.)
12. What is the importance of the ”advisory council” in Americanization work? (Roberts, pages 86-87.)
TOPICS FOR INVESTIGATION AND REPORT
1. Cla.s.sify the residents of your community according as they are (a) Foreign born (b) Native-born children of foreign-born parents, or (c) Natives.
2. Study your community with the aim of determining whether or not the character of its immigrant cla.s.s has changed within the last twenty- five years.
3. Cla.s.sify the immigrant groups of your community on the basis of occupation. Notice in particular the proportion of immigrants engaged in agriculture and in the trained professions.
4. Make a visit to a near-by foreign colony, and report to the cla.s.s upon your observations.
5. Interview the officials of a trade union on the effect of Unrestricted immigration upon wages.
6. Draw up a workable plan for the redistribution of immigrants in your state.
7. Draw up a plan for an Americanization survey in your state. (Write to the Bureau of Education in the U. S. Department of the Interior, for Bulletin, 1919, No. 77, on State Americanization.)
8. Race elements in the population of the American colonies. (Commons, _Races and Immigrants in America_, chapter ii.)
9. History of immigration to the United States. (Any standard text on immigration.)
10. The journey to America. (Abbot, _The Immigrant and the Community_, chapter i; Steiner, _On the trail of the Immigrant_; Antin, _They Who Knock at Our Gates_. See also Miss Antin's _The Promised Land_.)
11. a.s.sisted immigration. (R. Mayo Smith, _Emigration and Immigration_, chapter ix.)