PART ONE Instruction:
1) Read the sources below:
–Parker, Ch. 5: The Rise of the Federal Immigration Order
–Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=47&page=transcriipt
— The Geary Act (1892), https://aadha.binghamton.edu/items/show/221#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0
–Chae Chan Ping v. the United States, 130 U.S. 581, 609 (1889), Cornell Law School, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/130/581
— Fong Yue Ting v. the United States, 149, 698, 707, 730 (1893), Cornell Law School, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/149/698
2) Write answers to the following questions:
3. Questions:
1) What was the Supreme Court’s main argument in upholding the Chinese exclusion act of 1892 (Geary Act) in Chae Chan Ping v. the United States and Fong Yue Ting v. the United States? Identify the Court’s rationales.
2) What is the significance of the Supreme Court’s decision of the two cases?
3) What is the implication of these decisions today?
PART TWO Instruction:
1) Watch “Empire of Dreams (1880-1942)” In Latino Americans from Films on Demand using this link, https://fod.infobase.com/p_Login.aspx?e=9&xtid=58765&wID=98840
2) Write answers to the following questions.
3. Questions:
1) How did Puerto Rico become a U.S. territory? And why did Puerto Ricans feel ambivalent about the U.S. rule?
2) Why were Mexicans considered ideal workers for the United States particularly in 1915?
3) Why did Emilia Castañeda’s family return to Mexico in the 1930s?
4) Which one of the following terms best explains the policy that sent Emilia’s family to Mexico, resettlement, deportation, internment, immigration, and repatriation? Explain your choice. Use the following glossary to find the definition of the terms in the context of U.S. immigration law and policy. The first one is from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/data-standards-and-definitions/definition-terms and the second from Syracuse University, https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/glossary/
