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…. Elizabeth Blackwell was born in 1821 in Bristol, England. She was one of nine children and her father was a very prosperous sugar refiner. Her family immigrated to New York City in 1832. Her family was very active in the abolitionist movement in New York. Her…

…also took part in the running of gambling and prostitution. He dominated organized crime in Chicago from about 1925 to 1931. Al Capone's parents immigrated to the United States from Naples, Italy in 1893. Six years later on January 17, 1899…

…. Along with the natural resources came capital. The gold rush and a few northern factories were constant financial resources that influenced industrialization. A large number of immigrants aided business with the supply of cheap labor. Technology began…

…, and the measures that have been taken to extinguish organized crime. The roots of organized crime can be traced back to periods of vast amounts of immigration within the United States. Many of the immigrants sought wealth and prosperity upon their arrivals…

…the owners could get children and poor European and Asian immigrants to do the same menial factory jobs for pennies a day. This angered the Unions of America because their livelihood depended on the American working class. The Unions then persuaded…

…movements heat up in the 1890’s in the Eastern United States, and Ellis Island opens in 1892, sending millions of immigrants across the sea on an excruciating voyage (left). Ghandi finds himself treated as a member of an inferior race after being admitted…

…of Chinese immigrants coming into Australia during the gold rush. There were also pacific islanders who came to work in Queensland on the sugarcanes.. There were a lot of problems with defence during the mid 1880s, the activities of Germany and France coursed…

…other. People from all over the world come to Los Angeles hoping to find opportunity and freedom from oppressors, people like Zaheer Viriji, a twenty-seven year old ethnic-Indian immigrant from the East African Nation of Zimbabwe. In Kaplan’s article…

…where people in the area do they’re shopping. Black Americans and immigrants from other countries mostly populate the ethnic make up of Jamaica Queens. Rarely will you find a Hispanic, white, or Asian resident living in this neighborhood. Economically…

…Born in 1842 to two Scottish immigrants, Mary Helen MacKillop was brought up in a very religious, financially unstable household in Fitzroy, Melbourne. She resolved at a young age to lead a religious life. This goal was realized in 1866, after…