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What was the exploitation of immigrants by sweatshop owners?
What was the exploitation of immigrants by sweatshop owners?
Treating them badly and paying them less than other workers.
What type of work did immigrants do in their apartments?
What type of work did immigrants do in their apartments?
Piecework, such as stitching seams and sewing small things together.
Why did immigrant children have no time for school?
Why did immigrant children have no time for school?
Because they worked in bad places, such as sweatshops, coal mines, and textile mills, seven days a week.
What was produced in textile mills?
What was produced in textile mills?
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What was the consequence of immigrant children working instead of going to school?
What was the consequence of immigrant children working instead of going to school?
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What were some of the reasons why people in Europe left their homeland in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
What were some of the reasons why people in Europe left their homeland in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
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What did immigrants have to go through when they arrived at Ellis Island?
What did immigrants have to go through when they arrived at Ellis Island?
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What were the living conditions like for most immigrants in the United States?
What were the living conditions like for most immigrants in the United States?
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What were sweatshops, and how did they affect immigrant workers?
What were sweatshops, and how did they affect immigrant workers?
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What was the main motivation for immigrants to work in poor conditions?
What was the main motivation for immigrants to work in poor conditions?
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Study Notes
European Immigration
- In the late 1800s and early 1900s, many Europeans lived in crowded cities, struggled with hunger and poverty, and had difficulty finding jobs due to their religion or wars.
- To escape these conditions, millions of people migrated to the United States, selling their belongings to buy ship tickets, hoping for a better life.
Immigrants in the United States
- Between 1870 and 1916, approximately 27 million immigrants arrived in the United States, with the majority passing through Ellis Island in New York Harbor.
- At Ellis Island, immigrants underwent health tests, and about 2% were excluded from entering the country due to illness, insanity, or a criminal record.
Difficult Living Conditions
- Most immigrants lived in overcrowded and rundown tenements, lacking fresh air and sunlight, with up to 32 families crammed into one building.
- Landlords charged high rent, and working conditions were poor, with many immigrants working in factories or sweatshops.
Sweatshops and Exploitation
- Factory owners set up sweatshops, where workers, mostly women and children, were exploited, with no windows, no breaks, and poor working conditions.
- Sweatshop owners paid male immigrants less than other workers, and females even less, with some families working in their apartments for pennies.
Child Labor
- Many immigrant children worked in sweatshops, coal mines, and textile mills, with no time for school, and were exposed to dangerous machinery and working conditions.
- Children worked seven days a week, earning just enough to live, with no hope of escaping their circumstances.
- Textile mills, where children worked, made cloth, and were hazardous due to knitting machines and cloth looms.
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Take this quiz to learn about the mass migration of people from Europe to the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s, due to poverty, war, and religious persecution.
