What expectations did new immigrants to America from 1875 to 1900 have ?

Question

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What tensions arose between the "old stock" and the new immigrants?

How did industrialization inform the content of the immigrants' lives and alter their expectations?

What means, if any, did the new Americans have to address the inequities of capitalism that appeared omnipresent and oppresive?

Answer 1

Well, in the first place, the new arrivals were closely counted and kept at Ellis Island. This started due to the Potato Famine in Ireland and the large influx of Irish, about four million in two years unchecked.

        The jobs were going for five cents an hour, the Irish were willing to work for little or nothing while the native people worked for years for raises, the Irish pushed everything they'd (the Natives) worked for back.

         Riots were frequent, jobs were scares and people, entire families were living on the streets.

          A good movie, however novel, was close to the truth "Gangs of New York"