"We are still receiving Germans, Scandinavians and Englishmen who make excellent citizens and add greatly to the strength of our nation, but we are also receiving vast numbers of ignorant Roman Catholic Italians, Russian and Polish Jews, who will become a disturbing element in our national life, by coming into disastrous and deadly competition with unskilled American labor. The poverty, filth and over-crowding is some foreign quarters is pitiable and sickening. There are sections that resemble ant hills and beehives more than human habitations.” Which detail from the excerpt above best supports the claim that "new immigrants" faced more discrimination than immigrants that came in the earlier 1800s? A) "..sections that resemble ant hills and beehives…” B) "We are still receiving Germans, Scandinavians and Englishmen…” C) "vast numbers of ignorant Roman Catholic Italians, Russian and Polish Jews…” D) "The poverty, filth and over-crowding in some foreign quarters…”
"We are still receiving Germans, Scandinavians and Englishmen who make excellent citizens and add greatly to the strength of our nation, but we are also receiving vast numbers of ignorant Roman Catholic Italians, Russian and Polish Jews, who will become a disturbing element in our national life, by coming into disastrous and deadly competition with unskilled American labor. The poverty, filth and over-crowding is some foreign quarters is pitiable and sickening. There are sections that resemble ant hills and beehives more than human habitations.” Which detail from the excerpt above best supports the claim that "new immigrants" faced more discrimination than immigrants that came in the earlier 1800s? A) "..sections that resemble ant hills and beehives…” B) "We are still receiving Germans, Scandinavians and Englishmen…” C) "vast numbers of ignorant Roman Catholic Italians, Russian and Polish Jews…” D) "The poverty, filth and over-crowding in some foreign quarters…”
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"We are still receiving Germans, Scandinavians and Englishmen who make excellent
citizens and add greatly to the strength of our nation, but we are also receiving vast
numbers of ignorant Roman Catholic Italians, Russian and Polish Jews, who will become
a disturbing element in our national life, by coming into disastrous and deadly
competition with unskilled American labor. The poverty, filth and over-crowding is some
foreign quarters is pitiable and sickening. There are sections that resemble ant hills and
beehives more than human habitations.”
Which detail from the excerpt above best supports the claim that "new
immigrants" faced more discrimination than immigrants that came in the earlier
1800s?
A) "..sections that resemble ant hills and beehives…”
B) "We are still receiving Germans, Scandinavians and Englishmen…”
C) "vast numbers of ignorant Roman Catholic Italians, Russian and Polish Jews…”
D) "The poverty, filth and over-crowding in some foreign quarters…”
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