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…to provide the labor. Most of these workers were immigrants who came to America from Europe or African. Although the United States has sometimes experienced unemployment or labor shortages, immigrants came when work was plentiful. The American economy usually…

…, and other immigrants because they defended them against the APA, nativism, and prohibition. Also, most southern whites supported the Democrats. On the other side, most old-stock Protestants voted Republican, as well as most Scandinavian and British immigrants…

…this imaginary world. In Jay O'Callahan's performance of Pouring of the Sun, he too paints a vivid picture of an imaginary world without using anything besides his voice, words, expressions and minimal actions. O'Callahan tells a story of a family of immigrants who…

…more. (by trying to find something valuable). Document F states that all everyone wanted to do was dig, wash, refine, and load gold. What a waste of time, because no one came out rich like the Spanish. Document D, a list of immigrants bound for New England…

…directed at Irish immigrants, blacks, and those with darker skin, as explained by Philip Hone in Document E, were never ceased or prevented by any effort of Jackson. If Jacksonian Democracy was for protecting the individual rights of the citizen, then why were…

…congressional bills known as the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA). PRWORA directly affected the AFDC and the Food Stamp program, especially cutting…

…transformation itself. Sinclair also provides the meaning to the phrase “wage slavery” in different ways. In the novel Sinclair tells a story about a man name Jurgis, a Lithuanian immigrant who gets married to young lady named Ona Lukoszaite, who’s also…

…Imagine being an immigrant from a country where the Spanish language is practically ubiquitous. Now imagine trying to learn in an American school using a foreign language and being expected to move into the mainstream with the other children…

…countries "Gilded Age", the immigrants who came from all across the seas, thought the United States was perfect. As we and many others have learned, the proverb, "All that glitters is not gold" holds true in many circumstances. It was my…

…that without the immigrants America would not have been able to accomplish many of the different factors that contributed to the domestication of the frontier. These people were able to settle without upsetting any other social groups because of the amount of land…