. A history of the United States. ther of these races have been able to enter the United is the Italians, Albanians, Greeks, Bulgarians, Servians,Magyars, Poles, Bohemians, and Lithuanians who have beencoming lately in the largest numbers. Their homes are onthe coasts of the Mediterranean and in the valleys of theDanube and the Volga. They are mostly rugged peasants,and they take up the hardest work in the United them America is as much the Land of Promise as ithad been at an earlier period to the Puritan, the Scotch, theIrish, and the Germans. THE NEWEST IMMIGRANTS 493 Man
. A history of the United States. ther of these races have been able to enter the United is the Italians, Albanians, Greeks, Bulgarians, Servians,Magyars, Poles, Bohemians, and Lithuanians who have beencoming lately in the largest numbers. Their homes are onthe coasts of the Mediterranean and in the valleys of theDanube and the Volga. They are mostly rugged peasants,and they take up the hardest work in the United them America is as much the Land of Promise as ithad been at an earlier period to the Puritan, the Scotch, theIrish, and the Germans. THE NEWEST IMMIGRANTS 493 Many of the recent immigrants come from regions wherethe ancient Greeks and Romans once lived and where ruinsof their great and beautiful buildings still remain. They lovepainting, sculpture, and music. The Slavs, also, are lovers ofmusic. Some of the immigrants have become leaders inorchestras and musical societies. Like the Germans beforethem, they have helped in spreading the love of music andother arts in the United States. ^ Vs. Where the Immigrants go to Live in the United States The greater number of the foreign-bom live in congestedquarters in the large cities The Crowded Tenements.—Both the immigrants and thenative Americans who have moved to the factory districtsof the cities- have been obliged to change their formermode of life. It is necessary for them to settle near theplaces where they work, often in crowded, smoky, dismalspots. Cheap tenement houses have been built for laborers place of work is commonly more grimy andcheerless still. In the mines and mills his work was doneoften amid great dangers from explosions of gases or fromunguarded machinery. Organization of the Laborers. — As the business of manu-facturing or managing railroads was gradually organized ingreat corporations or trusts, so laborers of all sorts were 494 LABORERS OF A GREAT NATION organized. Small trade societies or unions had been commonfor many years. When prices rose during the Ci
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