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CLSM · Civic Literacy · Progress Check 1
Immigration Policy
Read the situation. Connect the ideas. Show how you know.
Name ___________________________Class __________ Date __________
01 Recall, then make a connection.
immigration policy
policy rationale
discrimination
Use immigration policy, policy rationale, and discrimination to distinguish what a historical rule required, how its supporters justified it, and whom it treated unequally.
Read the situation.
The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act restricted Chinese laborers’ entry and barred Chinese residents from naturalization. Its preamble linked exclusion to claims about public order. Those claims were part of the lawmakers’ justification; repeating them as the law’s argument does not prove they were accurate. In 1943 the exclusion laws were repealed, but a restrictive quota remained. These records show that a policy can change while unequal access continues in another form.
02 Organize the information.
Keep the table honest
For arithmetic practice only, a fictional admission system allows 20 places for Group A and 80 for Group B in a 100-place pool. These are invented figures, not historical or current U.S. quotas.
What percentage of the pool is assigned to Group A?
Answer: __________________ percent
Show the calculation, then explain what the result tells you in this model.
CLSM · Civic Literacy · Progress Check 1
What does the evidence show?
Immigration Policy
03 Follow the evidence.
A headline says the barriers all vanished
A draft headline states, “The 1943 repeal ended every restriction on Chinese immigration and citizenship.” Use the supplied source notes.
Select every note that should affect the editor’s judgment.
The repeal allowed Chinese immigrants to seek naturalization.
A restrictive numerical immigration quota remained after repeal.
A 1930 employment table reports occupations but does not describe the 1943 law.
An 1882 editorial supports exclusion but does not document the effects of the 1943 repeal.
Name the useful records and explain how they answer the claim.
04 Apply the idea.
Choose the publishable correction
The editor must replace the overbroad 1943 headline with a sentence supported by the file.
Which sentence should appear?
The 1943 repeal changed naturalization access for Chinese immigrants, while a restrictive admission quota remained.
The 1943 repeal made all immigration policies identical for every group immediately.
The 1882 policy affected only citizenship and never affected entry.
Choose a conclusion and explain why it fits the situation.
05 Carry the idea forward.
Write the corrected brief in five or six sentences. Explain how the 1882 policy connected a stated view of public order to an exclusionary rule, then explain one change and one continuity in 1943.