Immigrants: America's Industrial Growth Depended on Them

Written by Frank Beardsley
19 October 2005

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to come to America, that there are plenty of jobs."

steamships bringing grain to Europe could return to America filled with immigrants.

of West Virginia. They worked in the lumber camps of Michigan and in the stockyards and meat-packing plants of Chicago.


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