Description
The United States has its founding as a nation rooted in immigration. Every American’s ancestors originated from somewhere else, including the Native Americans whose ancestors came across a land bridge between Asia and Alaska at the end of the last ice age. At the base of the Statue of Liberty, which has served as a beacon of welcome for immigrants, the following lines of Emma Lazarus’s poem, The New Colossus” can be found.
“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!”
In this module, you have been exposed to the plight of immigrants that migrated to the United States around the turn of the century. Even though this plight, new immigrants still desired to come to this country in search of the American Dream. What do you think is this so-called American Dream? Did they achieve it? Has the dream changed since the turn of the century?