Graph exercise.

"Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free."*

In 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated in New York Harbor. Long before that, people had been coming to America to seek a new life, free of oppression, and with the promise of economic opportunity. Since 1820, when accurate record keeping began, more than 66 million immigrants from countries around the world have journeyed to America's shores fueled only by the hope of a brighter tomorrow. The data in this graph break down by decade the numbers in that stream of hopeful immigrants. Use the data to answer the questions below.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

* From a poem by Emma Lazarus, Inscribed In the base of the Statue of Liberty.

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1. Immigration to the United States has fluctuated with economic booms and busts and political troubles. The first dip in immigration took place in the decade during which Confederate and Union forces battled in the Civil War. In which decade did the Civil War occur? -- to -- 2. The worldwide economic depression and the start of World War II also brought a sharp decline in immigration, from about 4.1 million in the years -- to -- to about 528,000 in the following decade. 3. In the five years after World War II ended in 1945, there was a sharp rise in immigration. About -- immigrants landed in the U.S. by the end of the decade that ended in 1950 4. In...