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The Polish 's New Prosperity

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Civilizations are constructed and inhabited by people. No matter where they come from, the color of their skin or the language they speak they have the right to coexist. Immigrants from all around the world have come to one great nation to live the dream. America was founded by immigrants which today are now naturalized citizens by birth and that have several generations of families. The American population will always continue to grow not with the naturalized births but with the arrival of immigrants. “Immigrant communities in the first half of the twentieth century were marked by increasing prosperity as well as by cultural change. Despite the hardships of industrial life, workers of all ethnic groups were able to achieve a …show more content…

The new culture of the Polish was a combination of the new (America) and of the old (back in Poland) that became from the industrial and urban communities. Immigrants all alike had poor living conditions, working conditions and received little pay for the demanding jobs that they performed. The factory owners/manager’s bottom line was how much money will they make and how little to pay the workers. Not only did the immigrants get paid a small wage, they worked in horrible conditions that would eventually take a toll on their health and finally their lives. They would also work 12-14 hour days with typically one day off between. “Studies have shown that various governmental, regional, and demographic factors are also associated with voting turnout. I employ these variables (1) to guard against spurious correlations between the size of immigrant populations and turnout, and (2) as indicators of structural potentialities in urban political systems.” (Gordon, 1970) The laws that regulate the registration of the immigrants are not easier in the large populations of the cities. This was due to the difficulty of how spread out the communities was. However, there were some states that did pass literacy tests to determine the literacy level of the communities and immigrants. This changed the turnout of the level of the immigrants due to the increasing size of the

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