It has been estimated that one out of every two Americans living today can trace his or her family history back to at least one ancestor who passed through the famous immigration station on New Yor...

Give me your tired, your poorYour huddled masses yearning to breathe freeThe wretched refuse of your teeming shoreSend these, the homeless, tempest-tost to meI lift my lamp beside the golden door!...

Total Immigration to the United States1880s: 5.2 million1890s: 3.7 million1900s: 8.8 million1910s: 5.7 million1920s: 4.1 million1930s: 0.5 million Immigration 1860 vs. 1910Percentage of America's f...

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Acculturation The adoption or assimilation of American culture by foreign immigrants. anarchist, anarchists, anarchism A believer in anarchism, the philosophy that holds that abolition of all forms...