WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
Question
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riches were available to most immigrants
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many goods to choose from
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finding a suitable place to live
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religious freedom
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Detailed explanation-1: -What difficulties did new immigrants face in America? Immigrants had few jobs, terrible living conditions, poor working conditions, forced assimilation, nativism (discrimination), anti-Aisan sentiment. Why did cities in the United States grow rapidly in the decades following the civil war?
Detailed explanation-2: -Many immigrants came to America seeking greater economic opportunity, while some, such as the Pilgrims in the early 1600s, arrived in search of religious freedom. From the 17th to 19th centuries, hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans came to America against their will.
Detailed explanation-3: -Immigrants who arrived in America during the 1800s often faced prejudice and mistrust. Many had to overcome language barriers. Others discovered that the challenges they had fled from, such as poverty or religious persecution, were to be encountered in America as well.