CCapocasale_Exercises

Destination USA (page 364-365)
Ex.1
-In the second half of  the 19^thcentury Europe’s conditions were difficult economically and politically, indeed only few people had the right to vote or had a unmovable and friutful job. Moreover the development was not homogeneous, for example north-Italy was much more modernized and innovative then the south. 
-In my opinion an immigrant’s journey is never simple, on the contrary there are a lot of serious risks and dangers. So the journey to America in the 19^thcentury was surely long and exhausting, moreover when they reached to arrive they also had several controls that kept them detained for days or weeks. 
Ex.3
-In the 1870s the largest number of immigrants came from Germany, Ireland and Great Britain. 
-In 1880s waves of immigrants arrived from northern and western Europe.
-The United States’ governement’s policies and programmes affected immigrant patterns because of the Federal Immigration Act (1891) which declared that certain classes of individuals were unfit to become American citizens, those classes included: the poor, the mentally insane, people suffering from a dangerous contagious disease and those linked to anarchy and polygamy. 
-Once in USA the immigrants often took the last desirable jobs, but linked to their ethnic culture. For example Jews worked as tailors or opened restaurants, Mexicans worked as agriculturist, Greeks opened small stores, etcetera. 

The New American Businesses (page 366)
Ex.1
-The first picture of exercise 1 reports a sort of written banknote that tells “Capital Stock”. So it probably refers to the stock market of Wall Street that used to invest on bonds, whose capitals would be returned to the investors. Since that was not always possible people relied on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a financial company that told investors what their stock market was doing. 
-The second picture represents a lot of Coca-Cola’s bottles and surely refers to Asa Chandler, the first real businessman. He built up the largest pharmaceutical business of Atlanta and bought the recipe for Coca-Cola, turning it into a nationally recognised brand.
-The third and last pictures portrays a saop pubblicity and refers to Ivory Soap, producted by Procter and Gamble’s White Soap, that became famous for its purity and for floating in water.