history 1302 assignment

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/LIBERTY/lazaruspoem.html

Click on the link above to access Emma Lazarus’s poem, “The New Colossus” (1883). This poem is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty—one of the first sights for many immigrants arriving to the United States. What is Lazarus implying about the United States and immigration? Consider American attitudes regarding immigration, as well as immigrant experiences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Is Lazarus’s poem accurate, inaccurate, and/or idealized? Provide evidence for your answer.