AB_homework page 364

exercises page 364-365

1. LOOK:

• I think the journey to America was not like today emigrants’ journeys. It was very uncomfortable, the journeys were longer than todays ones.

1. AS YOU READ: 

• Italy, Greece, Germany, Mexico, Russian Empire, Ireland, Great Britain, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire.

1. ANSWER:

• The nations that brought the most significant numbers of immigrants to the United States are Germany, Great Britain and Ireland.
• In the 1880s most immigrants were still from northern and western Europe, coming in on a steamship.
• The mentally ill,poor, diseased, anarchists, and polygamists were not able to ove to America.
• Immigrants had jobs such as steel workers, small shop owners, agricultural jobs, tailors, restaurants owners, city jobs and local political machines.

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0: NOR 

1: WELL 

2: WOULD 

3: WHOM 

4: HAVE FAITH 

5: BUSINESSES 

6: LIKE 

7: AND

8: DISTINCTING