... York City, up the Hudson River to the entrance of the canal at Albany, through the canal to Lake Erie and into the Great Lakes. It would mean that all the vast territory around the Great lakes would be opened to trade with the East. It was ... villagers along the route. The 80 cents to one dollar a day that laborers were paid was often three times the amount laborers could earn in their home countries. To speed up the work the contractors began using horse-drawn scrapers and ploughs instead of the traditional wheelbarrow, ... in eight days."(Buehr, 39) "The construction of the Erie Can...

• Word Count: 1338
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... York City, up the Hudson River to the entrance of the canal at Albany, through the canal to Lake Erie and into the Great Lakes. It would mean that all the vast territory around the Great lakes would be opened to trade with the East. It was ... villagers along the route. The 80 cents to one dollar a day that laborers were paid was often three times the amount laborers could earn in their home countries. To speed up the work the contractors began using horse-drawn scrapers and ploughs instead of the traditional wheelbarrow, ... in eight days."(Buehr, 39) "The construction of the Erie Can...

• Word Count: 1292
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... 1881, and an Irishwoman watched young Irish Girls being herded aboard a steamship in Dublin. Bound for America, leaving home in the hope that the New World would offer them some promise in the way of employment and stability. The onlooker was Charlotte Grace O'Brien, daughter of famous Irish patriot and rebel, ... Our Lady of the Rosary was started. The organization provided food, shelter and support to helpless, young, Irish female immigrants. Our Lady of the Rosary, located in New York City, assisted over 170,000 immigrant girls, and is still around today helping thousands obtain jobs a...

• Word Count: 2562
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... of them came from Northern Italy. Poverty was a big reason on why Italian emigrated from Italy and came to the United States. Political hardship and being able to get enough money to buy more land was also a great pull factor. About 80% of the Italians that emigrated from Italy were big on agriculture and had known it their whole lives. American workers would ... Immigration started to drop and slow down it was around 1920 and more than 4 million Italians emigrated to the United States from Italy. The Italians came to the US by ships and the ships would always be packed to the gills. Th...

• Word Count: 995
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... in American culture and being part of a majority. Whites are usually the last ethnic group to be poked fun of. In the case of this memoir, Dalton Conley's skin color proves a difficult life he must face in the racially tense climate of New York City in the 1970's and 80's. ... needs to feel the "relief" of being struck, just to fit in with his classmates. Conley begins to live two identities: he spent his school days with children of wealthy white families and came home in the afternoon to violence and crime in a minority ... Dalton to become something in life. Coming from a minority ne...

• Word Count: 1008
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School