Second Grade
Unit 2 | Selected Websites
Topic: Timelines
- Click on The Peopling of America box for timeline:
http://www.ellisisland.org/immexp/wseix_4_3.asp - Landmarks in Immigration History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/immigration_chron.cfm - Immigration Timeline U.S. 1789-1930
Topic: Maps
- World Migrations
http://www.migrationinformation.org/datahub/wmm.cfm
Topic: Background Resources
- Immigration Original sources -- Fabulous Collections!
- Ship Manifests – Q & A user’s guide
http://www.immigrantships.net/newcompass/imnat/guides/cimorelli.html - Ship’s Manifests on the Web – Over 5,000 passenger lists are available on this amazing site.
http://www.immigrantships.net/index2.html - Indexed Links to Immigration Sites
http://www.teacheroz.com/20thcent.htm#immigration - Immigrant Photo Album
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/photo_album/photo_album.html - Ellis Island
www.ellisisland.org
An Interactive Tour of Ellis Island
Students take a virtual tour of Ellis Island.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/index.htm - Chinese immigration
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/chinese/index.html - Northern Plains Immigrants
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/ngp/history.html
(Scroll down for immigration.) - World migrations
http://smithsonianeducation.org/migrations/tiers/people/peoples.html - Other Resources
http://americanhistory.about.com/cs/immigration/
http://www.ihrc.umn.edu
http://genealogy.about.com/cs/ports/index.htm - Olive Tree Genealogy – Ship’s Passenger Lists
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ - Statue of Liberty
- Virtual Tour of Ellis Island
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