During the late eighteenth century and early to mid nineteenth century, there was a mass exodus of people from Europe, China, Japan, Canada and the West Indies moving into the United States. This was a time for growth in the United States, often referred to as the Industrial Age. Skilled and unskilled labor was plentiful; however, the wage was scarce. Some of the jobs that the immigrants had were Coal Mining, Construction, and
manual labor. These were the major jobs they had, all of them were hard jobs that they didn't get paid good money for. The average immigrant worker would receive $1.25 a day or $6.25 a week which, would work out to be 30 cents an hour. Most immigrants lived with each other in a group until they had a job and were able to afford to live on their own.
American workers had to worry about was the increasing addition of immigrants into the country. The majority of these immigrants were from countries such as Europe, Asia and Mexico. These new American......
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