WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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The Constitution
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The Statue of Liberty
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The Chinese Exclusion Act
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The Sherman Anti-trust Act
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Detailed explanation-1: -With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Detailed explanation-2: -teem. ( teems 3rd person present) ( teeming present participle) ( teemed past tense & past participle ) If you say that a place is teemingwith people or animals, you mean that it is crowded and the people and animals are moving around a lot.
Detailed explanation-3: -Though it was written at a time when the US was implementing blatantly xenophobic laws, the poem portrayed the Statue of Liberty as the “Mother of Exiles, ” and a welcoming symbol to immigrants arriving in the US.
Detailed explanation-4: -The overall message of Emma Lazarus’ “The New Colossus” relates to the importance of the Statue of Liberty and everything it represents.
Detailed explanation-5: -” Her sonnet “The New Colossus” was chosen to be inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty, the monument it celebrates, and it remains a most moving and eloquent expression of an American ideal: “Give me your tired, your poor, ” the sonnet concludes, “Your huddled masses…