The New Colossus Emma Lazarus Give me your tired, your poor, Your Huddled masses yearning to be free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
Old & New Immigrants Old immigrants New Immigrants Irish German Northern European New Immigrants East& South Europe(Italy, Romania, Russia, Turkey) China
Push & Pull Factors PUSH What is pushing the immigrants out of their homeland? Political turmoil Poor harvests Religious persecution PULL What is pulling immigrants to the US? “freedom” Political stability Opportunity to vote Economic opportunities land Jobs in factories
How are the “New” immigrants different from the “Old”? Religion: more Catholics, Jews Language: non-English/Germanic Foods:
Nativism: Response to Immigration
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism…The one absolutely certain way of bringing the nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities. Theodore Roosevelt