WILL FAN AND MEDAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Which statements about immigrants in the late 1800s are true? Choose all answers that are correct. A. Many immigrants lacked English and job skills, forcing them to take low-paying jobs. B. Most immigrants travelled to America as steerage passengers on steamships. C. Most immigrants were middle class and were looking for business opportunities in the New World. D. Many immigrants had skills that allowed them to demand higher wages than American workers.
Think about it..if their lives were so great before, would they have come over to America?
Let me give you an idea on how people saw immigrants during the Gilded Age: Unproductive, lazy, insuperior, no good. Also -- the only practical form of world traveling was via ship.
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