Today's objectives:

• US.3C - Analyze social issues affecting women, minorities, children, immigrants, and urbanization.

• US.13B - Analyze the causes and effects of changing demographic patterns resulting from immigration to the United States.

• US.15C - Explain how foreign policies affected economic issues such as the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the Open Door Policy, Dollar Diplomacy, and immigration quotas; and

• US.25B - Describe the Americanization movement to assimilate immigrants and American Indians into American culture.