In the Late Nineteenth Century,immigrants in the United States

question 5

Multiple Choice

In the late nineteenth century,immigrants in the United States

• A) were generally better educated than immigrants who arrived a generation before.
• B) took up semi-skilled craft jobs.
• C) avoided ports like Ellis Island for fear they would be denied entry.
• D) generally lacked the capital to buy farmland.
• E) settled overwhelmingly in the relatively empty Northwest.

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