"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
The "huddled masses" arriving in this period were predominantly:
- Acheck_circle
Southern and Eastern Europeans, including Italians, Poles, and Russian Jews
- B
British, Irish, and German Protestants
- C
Mexican migrants fleeing the Revolution
- D
Chinese laborers seeking railroad work
Explanation
The "new immigration" of the 1880s-1910s shifted source regions toward southern and eastern Europe, contrasting with earlier waves from northern and western Europe.