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Hello parents, guardians, and visitors, Welcome to our class Immigration wikispace! Please read the following information to get an understanding of what the purpose of this wiki is and to find out further information about technology resources out there that your son or daughter might use in the classroom.

Part of our Social Studies curriculum includes learning about the Immigrants who came to Wisconsin during 1800 to 1890. As a class project, students worked in pairs to research information on the different groups of people from different countries that came to America. Please take a look at the different pages of this wiki to gain an understanding why different cultures came to the United States and how it's made Wisconsin what it is today.
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The definition of an immigrant is a person who leaves one country to settle in another. During the 1800's, millions of immigrants came to the United States to find better farm land, work, and pay. People came to America at different times looking for different opportunities. Some of the groups that made their way to America came from the following countries: Ireland, England, Wales, Scotland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Poland. Once the immigrants found their way to their new country, they had to pass an exam making sure they were free of diseases. This was only the start of a scary and difficult life. Trying to find land to build their new future on without being able to speak English and read signs. Families had to be brave and stick together to make it. People from the same country settled together in different areas of Wisconsin and today, town names, churches, building styles, and the kinds of ethnic food served, can tell the story of the people who built their new lives from scratch.
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__**What to Expect**__ The class was divided into pairs and each pair assigned to a European country that had immigrants find their way to America. Students worked with their partner to create a wiki page linked from this site to present the information they research answering the following questions:

1.) What time period did the majority of people from your country come to the United States? 2.) Why did they want to immigrant to America? 3.) Where in Wisconsin did they establish a community? 4.) How did this group influenced our state? 5.) Explain some of the problems the immigrants encountered in the new American life.


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