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The what has been called the “melting pot of Nations”
United States
America’s culture lot and what were influenced by it’s English background
Religion
The King James version of the Bible is an what literary masterpiece
English
During the what Europeans came to America to work in factories but dreamed of obtaining land for farming
Old immigration
What occurred from the 1880s to World War I
New immigration
What immigrants were the only group who never freely chose to come to America
Black
Once a slave trader who wrote “Amazing Grace”
John Newton
Immigrants from Cuba came to the United States in the 1960s to escape the dictatorship of who
Fidel Castro
The American what like we migrated across the Bering Strait to reach America
Indians
The what Jews came from Germany
Ashkenazic
“The new colossus” is the name of a poem written by who
Emma Lazarus
Rabbi who came to America searching for the Messiah
Leopold Cohn
Most Americans were living in what areas before the war between the states
Rural
Three constant dangerous to city dwellers were what, diseases, and crime
Fires
The great what fired supposedly started when a cow kicked over a lantern
Chicago
After losing his daughters who wrote “it is well with my soul”
HG Spafford
Factories were terrible working conditions were called what
Sweatshops
Those who work in factories were often what and children
Woman
Who organized the Knights of labor
Uriah Stevens
The Knights of labor support it an eight-hour workday and abolishment of what but they refuse to strike to accomplish their
Child labor
Who established the American Federation of labor
Samuel Gompers
Who was assassinated by Charles Guiteau
James Garfield
Who constructed a model company town
George Pullman
Farming shifted from self-sufficiency to work after the war between the states
Commercial
