1. Contemporary Immigration and the Technology Revolution

2. How has rising immigration changed contemporary America?
Has increased American diversity
Has redefined American identity

3. From what two regions of the world have most recent immigrants come?
Asia
Latin America

4. What have been two reasons for immigration in recent decades?
Political freedom
Economic opportunity

5. Give two examples of contemporary immigrants who have come to the U. S
Give two examples of contemporary immigrants who have come to the U.S. for both political freedom and economic opportunity.
Cubans
South Vietnamese

6. Why have most Mexicans and other Latin Americans immigrated to the United States?
Economic opportunity

7. What are six issues related to American immigration policy?

8. Strain on government services
Filling low-paying jobs in the United States
Border issues
Pathway to citizenship
Bilingual education
Increasing cultural diversity

9. Why has recent immigration placed a strain on government services?
State governments must permit the children of illegal immigrants to attend public schools.

10. What types of jobs have contemporary immigrants often filled?
Low-paying jobs that native born Americans do not want to do

11. Historically, where have many Mexican immigrants worked?
On American farms harvesting crops by hand

12. What are three low-paying jobs that immigrants often do?
Farm work
Construction
Landscape crews

13. What has become a major issue in states that border Mexico?
Border issues

14. Where has policing the borders to prevent illegal immigrants from crossing into the United States become an expensive function of local governments?

15. Southwestern states like:
Arizona
New Mexico
Texas

16. For whom has the pathway to citizenship become a chief concern?
Illegal immigrants who want to stay in the United States
Native born Americans who fear that immigrants will take their jobs

17. Where has bilingual education become a major issue?
States with large Hispanic populations

18. Why has bilingual education become controversial?
Bilingual teachers are expensive.
Some Americans are afraid immigrant children will not learn English, if they have bilingual education.

19. Name three contributions of contemporary immigrants.
Diversity in music, the visual arts, and literature
Roles in the labor force
Achievements in science, engineering, and other fields

20. Give proof that recent immigrants have added to the diversity of American music.
Seven Grammy Awards for Latin music
One Grammy for reggae music

21. What has been the impact of dramatic advances in technology?
They have affected life in America in many significant areas.

22. What program was a triumph of American technological prowess or ability?
The American space program

23. What can make communication and information more accessible or easier to get?
Technology

24. What president pledged increased support for the space program in the early sixties?
John F. Kennedy

25. What space race continued through the sixties?
The race to the moon

26. What astronaut was the first American to orbit the earth?
John Glenn

27. Who was the first person to step on the moon’s surface?
Neil Armstrong

28. Who said, “That’s one small step for [a] man; one giant leap for mankind”?
Neil Armstrong

29. Who was the first female astronaut in the United States and the first American woman in space?
Sally Ride

30. What are two results of improved technology and media over the past three decades?

31. Businesses and individuals in both urban and rural areas have better access to communication and information.
Many more Americans have access to global information and viewpoints.

32. What are three examples of recent technological advances?
Space exploration
Communications
Robotics

33. What is robotics?
The technology connected with using computer-controlled robots to perform tasks

34. What are four technological advances related to space exploration?
Space shuttle
Mars rover
Voyager missions
Hubble telescope

35. What government agency is NASA?
National Aeronautics and Space Administration

36. For what purpose did NASA develop the space shuttle program?
For manned missions into space

37. What did the Mars rover do?
Robotic exploration of the planet Mars

38. What was the purpose of the Voyager missions?
Unmanned exploration to the outer planets

39. How has the Hubble telescope been important?
Hubble imagery has rewritten astronomy textbooks

40. What are three examples of technological advances in communications?
Satellites
The Global Positioning System (GPS)
Personal communication devices

41. What recent technological advances have given more Americans access to global information and brought changes in work, school, and health care?

42. 1) Cable Television (24 hr. news channels)
2) Personal Computers
3) Cellular Telephones
4) World Wide Web

43. Give three examples of technological advances in personal communication devices?
Cell phones
The iPhone
The iPad

44. How have advances in technology in recent decades led to changes in work, school, and health care?

45. Telecommuting
On-line course work
Growth of service industries
Breakthroughs in medical research
Outsourcing and off-shoring

46. What recent technology has allowed workers to do their jobs from home?
Telecommuting through the Internet

47. What recent technology has opened up educational possibilities through distance learning?
The Internet

48. What industries have grown because of rapid change in the technology field?
The service industries

49. What types of jobs in the service industries were created by technological advances?

50. Computer technicians
On-line retail sales
Customer service
On-line business transactions

51. How has technology in the 2nd half of the 20th century affected medical research?
Important breakthroughs in medical research

52. In what two ways have advances in technology hurt the American worker?
1) Outsourcing and off-shoring
2) Robotics

53. Explain how outsourcing and off-shoring have hurt the American worker.

54. Modern telecommunications have enabled American corporations to hire overseas workers, who work for lower wages than Americans.

55. How has robotics affected American industry?
Robots have replaced workers in American factories.
Robots have taken factory jobs from workers.