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C H A P T E R : 6 : The Nativist Movement and Immigration Restriction

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In 1886, a giant statue of a woman with the torch of freedom raised high in her hand was dedicated in New York Harbor within sight of Ellis Island. Almost immediately the figure came to symbolize for Americans the traditional role played by the United States as an asylum and a haven for the world's restless and oppressed. A few years later, the base of the statue was inscribed with "The New Colossus," a poem by Emma Lazarus (speaking in the voice of Liberty) that concluded:

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 ...

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