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…of sweatshop labor began in the 1860s, when the wives of civil war soldiers were employed to make uniforms. During the 1880s, immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe provided an immense amount of cheap labor. The problems of low wages and harmful conditions…

…and come here, and I have seen little else but hard labor and much sorrow…. I am dirty and tired almost to death.” This confession was made by one of the women who immigrated to America. Almost any women in colonial America might have made these comments. If she…

…seekers when I was in Australia and I was fighting for their rights, I was always telling them that these are not the ways that you could influence the Immigration Department or the Australian Government to accept you to stay there as a temporary or permanent…

…to live with them. Many of these Baptists are also descendants from immigrants who came to this country to escape government interference in religion. Baptists in Virginia persuaded Thomas Jefferson and James Madison to have religious freedom, so…

…-Hungarian immigrant photographer who was born in Germany. (The Knitting Circle Art, 1) Frida’s mother became pregnant after Frida’s birth and therefore was unable to nurse Frida only a wet nurse. A wet nurse is a woman that would give breast milk…

…freeing a greater percentage of eligible whites for military duty. Immigrants made up about 24 percent of the Union Army and 10 percent of the Confederate Army. As commander in chief of U.S. armed forces, Abraham Lincoln had to choose the Union’s top…

…terrorists. A proposal to enhance the authority of the Immigration and Naturalization Service to detain or remove suspected alien terrorists from within our borders. The ability of terrorists to move freely across borders and operate within the United States…

…-in at the Borden home a year earlier. The home had been locked up as usual, the maid Bridget Sullivan-an Irish immigrant, 26, that had been working at the household since 1889-was washing windows, and daughter Lizzie was inside the house reading a magazine. Even if both…

…. These groups also encouraged Americans to free themselves by destroying social security cards and not paying taxes. Talks of limiting immigration also became a major discussion. As the 19th century came to an end blacks were all, but free. During the 19th century…

…the Muslims. Population is dense in the east-central part of the country, but the western capital area has the highest density, largely as a result of immigration to Freetown. Urban population constitutes one-third of the country's total, and the rate…