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    Life in America: Comparing Immigrant Experiences
    Life in America: Comparing Immigrant Experiences
    Life in America: Comparing Immigrant Experiences
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    Life in America: Comparing Immigrant Experiences

    By Brynn Baker

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    Immigrant groups were not treated equally when they arrived in America. Some were loved and welcomed. Others were hated and cast aside. Compare and contrast immigrant experiences and how those experiences changed the United States. Meets Common Core standards for comparing accounts of an event.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateAug 1, 2015
    ISBN9781491478912

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      Life in America - Brynn Baker

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      Chapter One

      COMING TO AMERICA

      The United States has always been a land of immigrants. Pilgrims came in the 1500s to start new lives. Businesspeople and religious leaders came in the 1600s to start new colonies. In the 1700s slave traders forced Africans to immigrate to the country to tend crops. The 1800s saw a boom of immigrants from Ireland and gold-seekers from China. But the number of immigrants who came to America’s shores in the early 1900s was truly amazing. From about 1880 to 1920, nearly 30 million immigrants flooded into the United States.

      Shipload after shipload of immigrants docked on America’s East Coast. Most of the immigrants who arrived in the early 1900s came from southern and eastern European countries. They arrived from places such as Poland, Hungary, Italy, Germany, and Greece.

      These new immigrants were young, often between 15 and 30 years old. Many spoke no English and had nothing but the clothes they brought with them and the change in their pockets.

      The S.S. Konigin Luise was one of the many ships immigrants crowded onto to reach the United States in the early 1900s.

      Why People Came to America

      Several world events caused the major boom in immigration in the early 1900s. Many European countries were experiencing land shortages, poor economies, or war. People left their homelands to escape discrimination because of their race, religion, or political beliefs. Crops were failing and families were starving. People came to America in hopes of a better life.

      Immigrants were attracted to the idea of independence in America. The Declaration of Independence says, *"All men are created

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