The reading assignment for the week of June 12th is the first three chapters of Coming to America.

For Monday's class please read Chapter One and consider the following questions:

• What is the distinction between the terms migration and immigration?
• How did Europeans' attitudes towards other change in the Age of Discovery?
• Why did several hundred thousand Europeans come to the New World in the 16th and 17th centuries?
• How many Native Americans lived in what is now the U.S.A. and Canada in 1492?
• What explains the different policies of Spanish, French, and English colonists regarding native peoples?
• What are the laws or tendencies of migration? Define push, pull, and means.
• What are the three major immigration myths that most Americans believe?
• What main factor reduces a groups rate of return or remigration to the home country?
• In general, what is the demographic make up of Europeans who migrated to America?

Be prepared to answer these questions in class on Monday.