Immigrants
...e in crowded tenements and working grueling jobs. Many native-born Americans believed them to be evil with their strange customs, and rituals, so they actually just ignored them. Everyday hardships of the immigrant’s were the experiences of discrimination, prejudice and language difficulties. Then there was the fact that native-born American tried to keep them from participating in voting. But the real test or difficulty was adjusting to a new world, which they had to over come. The need for the immigrants to leave their country was a necessity to survive and the attraction to new way of life. A large number of peasants decided to escape to America; the land of freedom, and opportunity, were from Europe. After hearing about it from family that was already over there through letters or from posters they decided to go themselves. The immigrant’s banned together for a common cause; to help each other endure and adjust to their new home life. The immigrants were poor, determined, hard workers; who were use to work, some had special skills, that they could use to get a job using the tools that they had brought along the voyage. There was not much the immigrant could do, dealing with the problem of discrimination, and prejudice. They pretty much stuck to their own kind. Before the Irish people even arrived in this country they were already politically alert. The native-born Americans had the notion that the immigrants were here to take over; so they tried to keep the immigrants from taking part in the voting process, but the immigrants had the political bosses to back them up; as long as they voted the way they wanted them to. The political bosses were there to aid the immigrant with services that they might have need of...