Urban Dwellers: The Advantages and Disadvantages of City Life

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Chapter 19: American Society in the Industrial Age

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Urban Dwellers: The Advantages and Disadvantages of City Life

Please read the following selections and then answer the questions in the space provided.

Mary Antin, The Promised Land (1912)

Caroline Manning, The Immigrant Woman and Her Job (1930)

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1905)

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How did female immigrants fare differently from male immigrants?

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How difficult was it for immigrants to assimilate? Were they successful?

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