1. Land of Opportunity

2. What does “the land of opportunity” mean?

3. Consider: Colonial Era Immigration (17th century)
Economic Reasons: Farmers, fishermen, tradesmen, shipbuilders and crafts men all found work in 1650’s Jamestown
(Painting by Keith Rocco)
Religious Reasons: Pilgrims and Puritans sought religious freedom, "The Embarkation of the Pilgrims”
(Painting by Robert Walter Weir in 1857)
Living Conditions Immigrants fled poverty, war/ violence, famine, persecution; “Bridget O’Donnell and Her Children”
(Irish Potato Famine, The Illustrated London News, 1849)
Political Reasons: Intellectuals and political refuges left after failed revolutions, “1848 Revolution in Berlin”
(Unknown artist, )

4. Billboard during the Dust Bowl, 1930s