Sara S
08-06-2012, 08:21 AM
from delancyplace.com:
In today's excerpt - by 1868, the United States had already become the world's
largest economy, and by 1914 -- the dawn of World War I -- the US economy was larger
than the economies of Britain, France, and Germany combined. With such extraordinary
growth, the US required enormous new resources -- especially labor. To fill that
need, immigrants came pouring into the US from around the world, turning America
into a nation of immigrants. Greeting many of these immigrants was the Statue of
Liberty and Emma Lazarus's immortal phrase, "give us your tired, your poor, your
huddled masses yearning to be free":
"In 1867-1868, the United States surpassed Britain in gross domestic prod*uct (GDP),
becoming the world's largest economy. The growth of the size of the American economy
was driven by a combination of productiv*ity growth with a rapid increase in population,
driven by mass immigra*tion from Europe between the 1840s and World War I.
"The US population increased from forty million in 1870 to seventy-six million in
1900. Two-thirds of the growth was the result of natural increase, one-third the
result of immigration.
"Of the seventy-six million Americans in 1900, a third were either for*eign born
or the children of foreign-born parents. In 1910, the foreign-born and their first-generation
children accounted for more than 70 per*cent of the population in New York, Chicago,
Boston, Milwaukee, and Detroit.
"The Statue of Liberty was unveiled at a ceremony attended by Presi*dent Grover
Cleveland on October 28, 1886. The New York Herald de*scribed the scene: 'Amid the
uproar and excitement that succeeded the consecration of the statue, there glided
through the Narrows a huge steamship crowded with European immigrants. From her
decks the eyes of the strangers were fixed upon the wonderful drama in progress
before them. The cannon smoke and vapor rolled up, and ringed in a huge, fire-fringed
semicircle, they saw before them the mighty figure of Liberty. Imagination can only
conceive of what to their tired eyes, weary with the hardships, the hopelessness
and the cruelties of the Old World, this ap*parition must have conveyed.'
"Although the purpose of the Statue of Liberty was to commemorate the French-American
alliance during the American Revolution, it be*came an inspiring symbol to the millions
of immigrants who passed it be*fore arriving to be processed for entry to the United
States at Ellis Island. The link between the statue and immigration was reinforced
by 'The New Colossus,' the 1883 poem by Emma Lazarus engraved into the base:
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
'Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!' cries she
With silent lips. '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!'
Author: Michael Lind
Title: Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States
Publisher: Harper
Date: Copyright 2012 by Michael Lind
Pages: 168-169
Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States
by Michael Lind by Harper
Hardcover ~ Release Date: 2012-04-17
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In today's excerpt - by 1868, the United States had already become the world's
largest economy, and by 1914 -- the dawn of World War I -- the US economy was larger
than the economies of Britain, France, and Germany combined. With such extraordinary
growth, the US required enormous new resources -- especially labor. To fill that
need, immigrants came pouring into the US from around the world, turning America
into a nation of immigrants. Greeting many of these immigrants was the Statue of
Liberty and Emma Lazarus's immortal phrase, "give us your tired, your poor, your
huddled masses yearning to be free":
"In 1867-1868, the United States surpassed Britain in gross domestic prod*uct (GDP),
becoming the world's largest economy. The growth of the size of the American economy
was driven by a combination of productiv*ity growth with a rapid increase in population,
driven by mass immigra*tion from Europe between the 1840s and World War I.
"The US population increased from forty million in 1870 to seventy-six million in
1900. Two-thirds of the growth was the result of natural increase, one-third the
result of immigration.
"Of the seventy-six million Americans in 1900, a third were either for*eign born
or the children of foreign-born parents. In 1910, the foreign-born and their first-generation
children accounted for more than 70 per*cent of the population in New York, Chicago,
Boston, Milwaukee, and Detroit.
"The Statue of Liberty was unveiled at a ceremony attended by Presi*dent Grover
Cleveland on October 28, 1886. The New York Herald de*scribed the scene: 'Amid the
uproar and excitement that succeeded the consecration of the statue, there glided
through the Narrows a huge steamship crowded with European immigrants. From her
decks the eyes of the strangers were fixed upon the wonderful drama in progress
before them. The cannon smoke and vapor rolled up, and ringed in a huge, fire-fringed
semicircle, they saw before them the mighty figure of Liberty. Imagination can only
conceive of what to their tired eyes, weary with the hardships, the hopelessness
and the cruelties of the Old World, this ap*parition must have conveyed.'
"Although the purpose of the Statue of Liberty was to commemorate the French-American
alliance during the American Revolution, it be*came an inspiring symbol to the millions
of immigrants who passed it be*fore arriving to be processed for entry to the United
States at Ellis Island. The link between the statue and immigration was reinforced
by 'The New Colossus,' the 1883 poem by Emma Lazarus engraved into the base:
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
'Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!' cries she
With silent lips. '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!'
Author: Michael Lind
Title: Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States
Publisher: Harper
Date: Copyright 2012 by Michael Lind
Pages: 168-169
Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States
by Michael Lind by Harper
Hardcover ~ Release Date: 2012-04-17
If you wish to read further: Buy Now [https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001ewAbDfqaDHOhsW2i4tzHIIqgYq7E6DUy2JKfjHO-4JqeqdDanb0TdN1Q5U0Cc5ZqTQG5bhuaXri1RT1MD0PbRpMuUMB8gyEs7yTrKVGA0txvyB36wZjh-FVw9k2zGdRrwIO4y_RQerq1o9wiKTC8fd5uDZw9memSRT0aDphPWDFQhYTv0JUgwfTkP0MZBaORaC0YwgIoKzULGDrKnCHHFW7wHaGrBlm23gQE9eKyZpfQN8iFQ1mlUWQ_oWETQ-wxTKSPbY_Bs8u1jouYevpbNLq67xVyBXfD0MRqUOxceO8O3m_jfestO_YPvgZBKC-hIkNRRmMQVv1xs080iBC_vCmCxhi7dUEQTdVZsurx3v7KyP1Iyr10jgeRx9CcDQnYrZu5yBO4_8Ac7FfPaBZFHQ==]
If you use the above link to purchase a book, delanceyplace proceeds from your purchase
will benefit a children's literacy project. All delanceyplace profits are donated
to charity.