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Gilded Age Immigration-The Nations Newcomers
Title: Gilded Age Immigration-The Nations Newcomers
Category: History / North American History
Details: Words: 1035 | Pages: 4.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Gilded Age Immigration-The Nations Newcomers
To the 12 million immigrants who came to America from 1890-1910 the Gilded Age brought lavish dreams of vast wealth and great luck. What they found was that the crop failures, persecution, shortages of land and rising taxes that they were escaping was little worse than the racism, ill-treatment, and poor conditions they found here. Jobs were scarce for immigrants and those that could be filled by them were dirty, dangerous, and low paying leaving them impoverished …showed first 75 words of 1035 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1035 total…was depressing, dirty, racist, and corrupt. Hardly any American could claim more than 4 generations without an immigrant ancestor and yet they refused to accept those who came to gain fortune like them. The Gilded Age was a façade, a ploy for corporations to benefit from cheap labor. The immigrants built this nation and yet their reward was cut wages and hostility, a life little better than what they hoped to escape from their homelands.
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