Explain how immigrants cope with conditions as they found them in America’s cities?

Explain how immigrants cope with conditions as they found them in America’s cities?Did industry crush immigrants or provide them with new opportunities? In what ways did workers set the terms of their own experience? Did immigrants feel uprooted, or merely transplanted? Were they disempowered by immigrating to industrialized America, or was immigration a way of seizing power over their destinies? Primary sources you may want to consider include Emma Lazarus’ “The New Colossus,” Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, “Samuel Gompers Asks ‘What Dos the Working Man Want?’” (1890), and Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives. Secondary sources you may want to consider include Oscar Handlin’s The Uprooted (1973) and Alan M. Kraut’s The Huddle Masses (1982).

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