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Based on this immigrant’s description, what did most immigrants worry about most?

finding a new job

being allowed into America

how they would communicate

where to go in America

User Neftanic
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without quotes from the text it's referring to, it's hard to make a definitive answer but I'm leaning more towards being allowed in America.

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Answer:

The correct answer is B. being allowed into America

Step-by-step explanation:

Got it correct on edge.

Here is the excerpt:

"At a quarter to ten we steamed for Ellis Island. We were then marched to another ferry-boat, and expected to be transported somewhere else, but this second vessel was simply a floating waiting-room. We were crushed and almost suffocated upon it. A hot sun beat upon its wooden roof; the windows in the sides were fixed; we could not move an inch from the places where we were awkwardly standing, for the boxes and baskets were so thick about our feet; babies kept crying sadly, and irritated emigrants swore at the sound of them. All were thinking-"Shall I get through?"

-from With Poor Immigrants to America

by Stephan Graham"

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