Read the excerpt from Emma Lazarus’s poem The New Colossus, which is inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty. “ ‘Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!’ cries sheWith silent lips. ‘Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.’ ”Who are the “tired,” “poor,” “huddled masses” to which the poem refers?

The poem imagines the Statue of Liberty welcoming people seeking freedom and a better life in the United States. The “tired,” “poor,” and “huddled masses” refer to immigrants arriving through Ellis Island, the major immigration station near the statue in New York Harbor. Angel Island was an immigration station on the West Coast, not the one associated with the Statue of Liberty.

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