How Far Have We Come?

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WK3 Final Project Framework Worksheet

This worksheet will help you prepare for your final project by organizing the information that you’ll need for your final paper and walking you through the process of defining your topic, researching and analyzing primary and secondary sources, crafting a thesis, and creating an annotated bibliography. Once you have completed the worksheet submit it to the online classroom for grading.

After your instructor has graded the worksheet, please be sure to use it and the feedback provided to you by your instructor as you construct your final project.

1. Statement of Topic:

What topic will you be researching for your final project? You have the choice of:

• Immigrants

You must choose only ONE of the above groups. Which group have you chosen?

Immigrants

2. Events

You will need to choose at least 4 specific events that you plan to discuss in your final project. You should choose events that show how life in the United States changed over time for the group that you chose. Two events must be from the period between 1877 and 1945 and two events must be from the period 1945 to the present. On this worksheet and in your final project, be sure to discuss the events you’ve chosen in the order that they happened. This will help you put together a project that makes historical sense.

Event 1: 1877 to 1945

Event:

The passing of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

When: When did the event happen? Did it happen on a specific date? During a specific decade?

This particular event involving immigrants took place on May 6th, 1882 the day it was enacted.

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Where: Where did the event happen? In a specific city, state, or region of the country? Throughout the country?

The Chinese Exclusion Act was enacted throughout the whole country.

Who: Who were the main people involved in the event? What specific group of people was involved? Are there specific individuals associated with this event?

The Chinese Immigrants in the country were the main people involved.

Why: What events or issues contributed to this event happening?

The entry of the Chinese workers into the regular workforce led to this event. Their entry was after the completion of the transcontinental railroad.

How: How is this event historically significant?

The event’s significance is that it led to Chinese immigrants being barred from entering the country for a period of ten years. The act was subsequently reinstated for another ten years and later becoming permanent in 1902.

Event 2: 1877 to 1945

Event:

The enactment of The Magnuson Act of 1943.

When: when did the event happen? Did it happen on a specific date? During a specific decade?

This event took place December 17th, 1943.

Where: Where did the event happen? In a specific city, state, or region of the country? Throughout the country?

The Magnuson Act of 1943 was enacted throughout the entire country.

Who: Who were the main people involved in the event? What specific group of people was involved? Are there specific individuals associated with this event?

The Chinese immigrants in the United States were the people involved.

Why: What events or issues contributed to this event happening?

The enacting of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 was the major reason for this event. During World War II, China was an ally to the U.S hence it necessitated the passing of this Act.

How: How is this event historically significant?

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The Magnuson Act of 1943 repeals the earlier Act of the Chinese Exclusion Act and sets some quotas for the Chinese immigrants while allowing them to have full eligibility for U.S. citizenship.

Event 3: 1945 to the present

Event:

The enactment of the Fiancée’s Act of 1946.

When: When did the event happen? Did it happen on a specific date? During a specific decade?

This event took place June 29th, 1946.

Where: Where did the event happen? In a specific city, state, or region of the country? Throughout the country?

This event took place throughout the entire country.

Who: Who were the main people involved in the event? What specific group of people was involved? Are there specific individuals associated with this event?

The Chinese immigrants’ foreign born fiancées were the beneficiaries of this Act.

Why: What events or issues contributed to this event happening?

A post-World War II piece of legislation that was enacted to extend the War Brides Act of 1945. Therefore, it was the World War II events and support of the Chinese to Americans that led to this extension of the War Brides Act of 1945.

How: How is this event historically significant?

This event granted the fiancées of American members of the armed forces who were immigrants an exemption in a special way from the quotas which were established earlier. It allowed these groups of people to enter the U.S.

Event 4: 1945 to the present

Event:

The enactment of the Civil Rights Act.

When: when did the event happen? Did it happen on a specific date? During a specific decade?

This event took place on July 2nd, 1964.

Where: Where did the event happen? In a specific city, state, or region of the country? Throughout the country?

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This event took place throughout the country.

Who: Who were the main people involved in the event? What specific group of people was involved? Are there specific individuals associated with this event?

African Americans were the main focus of this event.

Why: What events or issues contributed to this event happening?

Numerous protests by the African American Community. Attacks on the African American community during their protests including the Birmingham Campaigns where the police dogs attacked them. These protests were all against segregation of the community.

How: How is this event historically significant?

The act led to equal voting rights requirements as well as stopped discrimination based on race, color, gender, religion and national origin.

3. Sources

You will need to locate two primary sources and two secondary sources related to your topic. Use the primary source analysis tool for help with analyzing primary sources.

Primary Sources

APA Citation for Primary Source 1:

Provide the APA citation for your source. Here are some examples of APA citations.

_ Civil Rights Bill Passed, 73-27; Johnson Urges All To Comply; Dirksen Berates Goldwater. (2016). Nytimes.com. Retrieved 13 October 2016, from

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0619.html Annotation for Primary Source 1:

Provide an annotation explaining what the source is, where it came from, what this source can tell us about your topic, what questions it raises, and how this source will help you prove your thesis. Be sure to clearly identify which specific event this source relates to. Here are some examples of annotations .

This is an online newspaper retrieved from the New York Times website. The source contains information and screenshots for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and how everyone in the U.S. was to comply. The source will, therefore, provide exact information in the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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1. (image annotation)

You can use this or you could

(in keeping with your other

sources look at legislation

specifically on immigrants in

the 1960s or more recent

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2. The source contains

This is a useful source but it

is not a primary source as it

was not written in 1960s ... a

primary source has to be

written at the time of the

event it is discussing. There

are a lot of primary source on

civil rights. A secondary

sources needs to be a journal

or book see again the

handout for this. [Victoria

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and some of the expectations of the Act on the immigrants. This will help support my thesis on this section by showing how the laws on immigrants have evolved over time.

APA Citation for Primary Source 2:

Provide the APA citation for your source. Here are some examples of APA citations.

Bisbee Daily Review. (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, June 30, 1905, Image 5. (1905). Chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. Retrieved 13 October 2016, from http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024827/1905-06-30/ed-1/seq-5/

Annotation for Primary Source 2:

This source documents a newspaper review and the Chinese Exclusion Act. The source is retrieved from the Library of Congress database. The review contains information about the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 in the form of news of then. The articles in the newspaper excerpts raise critical questions on the human rights aspects regarding the Chinese Exclusion Act. The source will be helpful in my thesis since it will explain more information about the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and how it was perceived by the immigrants and the people then.

Secondary Sources

APA Citation for Secondary Source 1:

Provide the APA citation for your source. Here are some examples of APA citations.

Salyer, L. E. (1995). Laws harsh as tigers: Chinese immigrants and the shaping of modern immigration law. Univ. of North Carolina Press.

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Annotation for Secondary Source 1:

Provide an annotation explaining what the author's thesis is, how they prove their thesis, and how this source will help you prove your thesis. Be sure to clearly identify which specific event this source relates to. Here are some examples of annotations .

This book by Salyer is about the development of immigrant laws in the United States. The author addresses the harshness of these laws during the 20th century and how the immigrants, especially the Chinese immigrants pushed for the development of the present laws regarding immigrants in the U.S. In chapter six of this book, the author described the Chinese immigrants’ resistance and the enactment of the War Brides Act and the setting up of immigrant quotas. The book will help prove my thesis by providing supporting evidence of the reasons behind the enactment of various immigrant laws. It will also help explain major events that can help understand the situation with immigrants in the period between 1877 and the present.

APA Citation for Secondary Source 2:

Provide the APA citation for your source. Here are some examples of APA citations.

Henkin, L. (1987). The Constitution and United States Sovereignty: A Century of" Chinese Exclusion" and Its Progeny. Harvard Law Review, 100(4), 853-886.

Annotation for Secondary Source 2:

As the title of the journal suggests, the thesis of Henkin L is the Chinese exclusion in the United Stated in the 20th century. The author of the journal clearly gives several events in the 20th century that indicates the exclusion of the U.S immigrants including the Chinese. The author supports their thesis by using various events in history such as the Chinese Exclusion Act. This source is helpful in my thesis because it will provide an elaboration of the Chinese Exclusion Act, the repealing of the Chinese Exclusion Act and other events in history that were experienced by Chinese in this “Century of Chinese Exclusion.”

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1. Very good source

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4. Thesis Statement

Once you have analyzed your sources, consult the AWC’s “Thesis Statement” and use the writing center's Thesis Generator to craft a thesis on your topic, based on your findings from your sources.

Please remember that there are primary listed in the Week3 Discussion Board 1. You are free to use one or more of those primary sources or you may find your own. You are also welcome to use the secondary sources throughout the course listed as “recommended sources.”

Thesis:

Looking at immigrants’ history in the U.S., there are limited opportunities to the Chinese immigrants yet their contribution to the development of the United States was significant.

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1. You have a great start here

but keep in mind you thesis

needs to reflect the sources

(that is the evidence) that you

have found ... you might want

to work at this as you

progress with the paper.

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