In the context of immigration history, what is a push factor? What do immigration historians mean by uprooting? What economic transformations pushed Mexicans into the Southwest from Mexico?

2. In the context of immigration history, what is a pull factor? What economic transformations in the U.S. pulled Mexicans into the Southwest at the turn of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th? Why do they migrate to Chicago?

3. What is eugenics? What role did it play in the formation of U.S. immigration policy? Refer to the national origins provisions in the 1924 Immigration Act.

4. What is nativism? (Go to the dictionary and define American nativism).

Discuss Nativist origins reaching back to the Alien and Sedition Acts of the 1790s. What would the reaction be to large numbers of Mexicans entering the country?

5. Describe Mexican immigration to the U.S. before and after 1910. Consider the Mexican Revolution as well as increasing urbanization