(Cardoso, 1980). The railroads sparked an economic boom in the western US by linking the region's mines, forests, and farms to the burgeoning industrial centers of the Northeast and Midwest, creating a huge demand for labor. The new rail lines also connected Mexico's mines and haciendas ...
The United States is a country of immigrants — people who come to one country from another country, in hopes of having a better life. An inscription on the base of the Statue of Liberty welcomes new immigrants: "Give me your tired, your poor, / Your hud
1. Understands the lives of free and indentured immigrants who came to North America and the Caribbean from Europe (e.g., religious, political, and economic motives of free immigrants from different parts of Europe; why indentured servants risked the hardships of bound labor overseas; opportunities...
Many European immigrants without industrial skills flooded into American factories and steel mills. These new comer’s came in search of better economic opportunity‚ which paved the way for Heavy‚ low paying labor that became the job description of Premium Industrial Revolution Furnace ...
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