"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!" — Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus," 1883
Lazarus's poem most directly idealized:
- A
The Anglo-Saxon racial heritage of the American people
- B
Federal restriction of immigration through literacy tests
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The United States as a haven for impoverished European immigrants
- D
Western expansion and the closing of the frontier
Explanation
Written to fundraise for the Statue of Liberty's pedestal, the sonnet recast Liberty as a welcoming "Mother of Exiles" for poor immigrants arriving by sea.