Immigration

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. After finding some sort of steady income they had to have a place to live.

Most immigrants who left their homelands endured difficult journeys while coming to America.

Immigrants had to somehow make a living when in America. These questions included: name, age, sex, marital status, occupation, nationality, ability to read or write, race, physical and mental health, money in possession, prison record, if any. Also new immigrants meant new races, religions and traditions. Most of them ended up doing cheap labor getting paid maybe 5 cents an hour and sometimes working 18-hour work shifts. People found these new ideas hard to tolerate. They ate bad food and were treated poorly by the ship’s crew. American lifestyles were much different f!

rom those in most immigrants’ homeland. Each passenger had to answer a series of questions recorded on manifest lists. Though it was very stressful and hard at times, in the end it was probably worth it coming to the new world because the life was better than that in their homeland. Crowed into steerage (the area below the main deck of the ship), these travelers endured stale air and poor conditions for two to three weeks as they crossed the Atlantic. They faced many hardships starting with the journey on over to America.