AP WIRE Assignment Feb 10, 2014
The  Immigrant Experience 1880 to 1924

DIRECTIONS: - Please respond to the two questions below based on our study of the immigrant experience in American between 1880 and 1924.

RESOURCES:

The American Pageant Chapters #24 and #25 

Immigration Patterns and Immigration Reactions

 

DUE DATE: Your responses must by posted to your wiki page by Monday,  February 10th by 11:15 pm

 "The New Colossus" (1883)

Emma Lazarus 

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

1. Using specific factual information from your text readings, class notes, and class discussions, explain how the highlighted stanza was an accuratre reflection of the immigrant experience from 1869 and 1881.  Be sure to consider the political, social, and economic factors during this second wave of immigration.

2. Using specific factual information from your text readings, class notes, and class discussions, explain how the highlighted stanza was an inaccurate reflection of immigration policy from 1882 to 1924.  Be sure to consider the political, social, and economic factors during this second wave of immigration.