America at 250: A History, DeVane Lecture, Class 18 – Melting Pot or Guarded Gate

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This lecture explains how the United States moved from the 1880s Statue of Liberty / Emma Lazarus vision of a haven for “huddled masses” to the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act, which ended relatively open mass European immigrat...

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