Christian Medina

01-18-2023

The interpretation I have on this quote is Ms. Lazarus wanted presidents and
leaders of other foreign countries that if they have people who were poor, exhausted, and trying to breathe, that
they can come to the U.S to enjoy these accommodations of wealth, of strength, and of peace. That they can
know the doors of America are open to all immigrants.

The poverty of displaced farmworkers drive from the land by political
turmoil.
Joblessness in European cities as a result of population growth.
Religious persecution, particularly against Jews in eastern Europe
The mechanization of farm work and overcrowdedness in European
cities.
The U.S' reputation for political and religious freedom.
The economic opportunities afforded by the settling of the West.
The abundance of industrial jobs in U.S cities.
The introduction of large steamships and the inexpensive one-way
passage in the ships' steerage"

Through the 1880s, the vast majority of immigrants came Beginning in the 1890s and continuing to the outbreak of
from northern and western Europe: the British Isles, Germany, World War I in 1914, new immigrants came from southern
and Scandinavia and eastern Europe: Italians, Greeks, Croats, Slovaks, Poles,
and Russians.

Most of the old immigrants were Protestants, their language,
mostly English and high level of literacy and occupational
skills made it easy for them to blend into.
Most of these Old immigrants would blend into a more rural
American society in the early decades of the 19th century.
Many New immigrants were poor and illiterate peasants who
had left autocratic countries and therefore were
unaccustomed to democratic traditions. Most were Roman
Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, or Jewish.
Most New immigrants located themselves into poor ethnic
neighborhoods in New York, Chicago, and other major U.S
cities.

Some of the pull factors that increased

migration from Asia was from the discovery of The Chinese Exclusion Act of In response to anti-Asian feelings,
Gold in California in 1848. Also, the abundance of 1882, banned all new Congress passed immigration
work found in Hawaii by Japanese, Korean, and immigration from China. restrictions in 1917 and 1924 that
Filipinos in the late 1800s. almost completely stopped
immigration from the whole continent.

What caused migration from rural to urban areas was due to the new economic opportunities that emerged in the urban areas and the provision
of a market for factory-made goods. The process of people migrating from the countryside to the cities is known as Urbanization.

Mass transportation As affluent citizens moved out of residences near the

had the effect of segregating urban workers Streetcar suburbs were
by income. It pushed the upper and middle
classes to move to streetcar suburbs
communities that grew
along transit routes
leading to an urban
center. This would
provide escape to
escape pollution, poverty,
and crime of the city. The
exodus of higher-income
residents left older
sections of the city to the
working poor, many of
whom were immigrants.
business districts, the poor moved into them. To increase their profits
landlords divided up inner-city housing.
This inner-city
housing would result in creating small,
windowless rooms. The resulting
slums and tenement apartments
could cram more than 4,000 people
into one city block.
In an attempt to correct unlivable
conditions, N.Y.C passed a law in
1879 that required each bedroom to
have a window. The cheapest way for
landlords to respond to the law was to
build the so-called dumbbell
tenements, buildings constructed
with open ventilation shafts.