For Wednesday's class, please read Chapter Eight and consider the following questions:
- When did most Eastern European immigrants begin to arrive in the United States?
- Where did they settle, and what did they do for a living?
- What did they do before they emigrated, and why did they go to America?
- How does the 1910 census data indicate how many Poles came to America?
- What role did Polish Nationalism play in the immigrants experience?
- Why did Eastern European Jews emigrate?
- Where did they settle, and what did they do for a living?
- How did the Eastern European Jewish immigrant's experience differ from other immigrants of the same period?
- What was the Triangle Shirt Waist fire of 1911?
- What were the differences/conflicts between Eastern European Jews and other American Jews?
- What does the complex story of the Hungarian family on page 234 illustrate best about immigration?
- What were working conditions in American industry like?
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