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DB TEST: Immigration in the 1990s: Proposition 187
About this video
This 9-minute video illustrates how demographic trends and a changing California economy in the 1990s created a backlash against immigration, only to be followed by another swing in the ideological pendulum. This lesson examines how economic and demographic forces affect the strategies of the political parties, and demonstrates how policies like Proposition 187 can produce unintended and surprising consequences.
Objectives
- Evaluate and make generalizations about U.S. immigration policy.
Essential Questions
- How has U.S. immigration policy and rhetoric related to immigration policy changed over time?
Additional Resources
- Transcript for “How Prop. 187 Transformed the Immigration Debate and California Politics” Retro Report
- Text of Proposition 187
- Links for historic examples of immigration policy:
- How immigration laws and rules have changed through history (This timeline provides numerous examples, several of which are included below in greater detail) Pew Research Center
- 1790 Nationality Act Immigration History
- Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 National Archives
- Immigration Act of 1864 Immigration History
- Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) National Archives
- Immigration Act of 1891 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
- Immigration Act of 1917 Immigration History
- Immigration Act of 1924 Office of the Historian
- Bracero Agreement (1942) UCLA Labor Center
- Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter Act) Office of the Historian
- Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (Hart-Celler Act) Immigration History
- Immigration Reform and Control Act (1986) Library of Congress
- Arizona – SB 1070 (Unlike the others, this is a state-level law) Ballotpedia
- Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (2012) Immigration History
- Additional resources related to Proposition 187:
- Prop 187 Timeline: The rise and fall of California’s anti-immigrant law The Los Angeles Times
- Prop 187 Information Page Ballotpedia
- “Trump’s Argument Against Immigration: We’ve Heard It Before” Retro Report
- Additional resources related to immigration policy:
- Immigration and Relocation in U.S. History Library of Congress
- UT-Austin Immigration History Timeline Immigration History
- Latinx Civil Ri
Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.1:
Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.2:
Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.8:
Assess the extent to which the reasoning and evidence in a text support the author’s claims.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.1:
Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, connecting insights gained from specific details to an understanding of the text as a whole.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.9:
Integrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent understanding of an idea or event, noting discrepancies among sources.
D1.4.9-12.
Explain how supporting questions contribute to an inquiry and how, through engaging source work, new compelling and supporting questions emerge.
D2.Civ.1.9-12.
Distinguish the powers and responsibilities of local, state, tribal, national, and international civic and political institutions.
D2.Civ.5.9-12.
Evaluate citizens’ and institutions’ effectiveness in addressing social and political problems at the local, state, tribal, national, and/or international level.
D2.Civ.13.9-12.
Evaluate public policies in terms of intended and unintended outcomes, and related consequences.
D2.His.1.9-12.
Evaluate how historical events and developments were shaped by unique circumstances of time and place as well as broader historical contexts.
D2.His.2.9-12.
Analyze change and continuity in historical eras.
D2.His.5.9-12.
Analyze how historical contexts shaped and continue to shape people’s perspectives.
D2.His.12.9-12.
Use questions generated about multiple historical sources to pursue further inquiry and investigate additional sources.
D2.His.16.9-12.
Integrate evidence from multiple relevant historical sources and interpretations into a reasoned argument about the past.