WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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factory workers, doctors, and travel agents.
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train engineers, athletes, and lawyers.
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doctors, lawyers and businessmen.
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factory workers, businessmen, and athletes.
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Detailed explanation-1: -1) First = the immigrants 2) Second = children of immigrants [Some call those who migrate as small children the 1.5 generation.] 3) Third = grandchildren of immigrants NOTE: Asian immigrant groups count 0 as the immigrants, 1 as the children of the immigrants (the first generation born here).
Detailed explanation-2: -A person who is a first-generation immigrant is defined as one who is born outside of the United States. 1.5-generation immigrants are individuals who came to the United States as children. Second-generation immigrants are born in the United States but have parents who are born abroad.
Detailed explanation-3: -“Second generation” refers to people born in the United States, with at least one first-generation (immigrant) parent. People born in Puerto Rico or other U.S. territories with at least one parent born in a different country are considered second generation.
Detailed explanation-4: -first-generation immigrants (foreign-born population); second-generation immigrants (native-born population with at least one foreign-born parent); native-born with native background.