immigrant experience
- Created by: rachelhoneyman1
- Created on: 30-12-18 00:59
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- The immigrant experience
- by the end of the 19th century, many different ethnic groups lived in the us thanks to Americas 'open door policy'
- old emigrants = 17th century
- Britain, ireland, germany, and scandinavia
- many already had family members in the us
- they went on to have success in banking, politics, and law
- many already had family members in the us
- Britain, ireland, germany, and scandinavia
- new immigrants began to arrive in the 1890's
- from eastern europe and the meditteranian
- many were poor, had little education skills and were fleeing persecution in their home country
- found it difficult to find well paid jobs. lived in slums with people from their ethnic groups
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