IF ONE MORE BOT ANSWERS OR SOMEONE WITH SOMETHING THAT ISN'T THE ANSWER TO SAY, I WILL EXPLODE. I originally asked this question
for 100 points, but yall ruined that for yourselves. This is why we can't have nice things. "Immigrant Eyes"
Oh Ellis Island was swarming
Like a scene from a costume hall
Decked out in the colors in Europe
And on fire with the hope of it all
There stood my father's own father stood huddled
With the tired and hungry and scared
Turn of the century pilgrims
Bound by the dream that they shared
They were standing in lines just like cattle
Poked and prodded and shoved
Some were one desk away from sweet freedom
Some were torn from someone they love
Through this sprawling tower of Babel
Came a young man confused and alone
Determined and bound for America
And carryin' everything that he owned
Sometimes when I look in my grandfather's Immigrant Eyes
I see that day reflected and I can't hold my feelings inside
I see starting with nothing and working hard all of his life
So don't take it for granted say grandfather's Immigrant Eyes
Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.
-Rudyard Kipling, 1898
We’ve take up the white man’s burden
Of ebony and brown;
Now will you kindly tell us Rudyard,
How we may put it down?
-New York World (1899) Quoted in Thomas A. Bailey, A Diplomatic History of the American People, 8th ed. (NY: Appleton Century Crofts, 1969), 478.
Short Answer:
1. Answer a, b, and c.
a. Briefly explain ONE similarity between the experiences of one immigrant group and another immigrant group during the time period of 1890 – 1945.
b. Briefly explain ONE difference between the experiences of the two immigrant groups chosen in part a during the time period of 1890 – 1945.
c. Briefly explain ONE policy that impacted immigration during the time period of 1890 – 1945.
A. From 1890 to 1945, the United States witnessed mass immigration of Eastern Europeans fleeing their countries. Two of those immigrant groups were the Lithuanians and the Polish (or Poles). Both groups traveled to the United States to improve their economic status.
B. Another reason why Lithuanians were leaving their homeland was because they were avoiding compulsory military service in the Russian army.
Poland was falling behind other countries economically, so, several Poles emigrated to Western Europe, or the United States, so they could become more industrialized.
C. The Johnson-Reed Act, or the Immigration Act of 1924, limited immigration. The act was widely restrictive on immigration and was specifically designed to keep out “undesirable” ethnic groups.
