... If your cold you turn on the heater, if your hungry you cook something to eat, and if you want to build something you go to Lowe's or Home Depot and buy all the wood and nails you can carry. Where do all these resources come from and how much is left? Americans consume about thirty percent of the ... the other things the world has to offer however, if your income doesn't allow you shop in the fancy air-conditioned mega malls of the have a three bedroom home in Pleasantville USA then again you get a small slice of the economic pie. On the other hand if you have an income like Bill Gates th...

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... of Industrial America 1851-1900, internet, no documentation) Throughout the late 1800s, most East Coast immigrants arriving in New York entered at the Castle Garden depot in Manhattan. In 1892, the federal government opened a new immigration processing center on Ellis Island, in New York Harbor. (Rise of America, 1876- ... by a doctor. If they were found to have a serious health problem or a contagious disease, such as tuberculosis, they were promptly sent home. Those who passed the medical exam then reported to a government inspector who checked documents and questions immigrants to det...

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