picture of the growing pains America endured in the process of westward expansion and the chapter gives students some insights into what faced once they arrived in this country. After you watch the embedded video please assess the push-pull factors that led immigrants to leave Europe. Compare those factors to the ones that encouraged Lee Chew (see attached document) to leave China. After reviewing both the video and the article compare the reasons for immigration in the nineteenth century to those in the twenty-first century. How are the reasons alike? How are they different? In the end, do you think Lee is happy with his decision to stay in America? Why or Why not?

Lee Chew, "The Biography of a Chinaman," 1903

http://college.cengage.com/history/ayers_primary_sources/leechew_biography_chinaman.htm

First Waves of Immigration Mid 19th Century Lecture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd52UScGRhI