1. 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.

2. Old & New Immigrants Old immigrants New Immigrants Irish German
Northern European
New Immigrants
East& South Europe(Italy, Romania, Russia, Turkey)
China

3. 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

4. How are the “New” immigrants different from the “Old”?
Religion: more Catholics, Jews
Language: non-English/Germanic
Foods:

5. Nativism: Response to Immigration

6. 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