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LOOKING BACKWARD
THEY WOULD CLOSE TO THE NEW C COMER THE BRIDGE THAT CARRIED THEM
AND THEIR FATHERS OVER.
Source: “Looking Backward.” Joseph Keppler, colored proof for Puck, 11 January 1893.
Reprinted courtesy of the Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Arts, Prints, and Photographs,
The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation.
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What irony about U.S. citizens’ historical attitudes toward immigration is the cartoonist showing?
A . Americans encouraged immigration but rejected the immigrants at the docks.
B . Americans who were once poor rejected impoverished immigrants.
C . Americans preferred well-dressed over poorly-dressed immigrants.
D . Americans feared that immigrants could not survive in the cities.
E . Americans wanted only young immigrants who could do hard work.
Answer: B
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