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What challenges did many immigrants face in Louisiana during the 1800s? Check all that apply.

discrimination from residents
struggles with poverty in their new home
hard jobs that were considered dangerous
the spread of disease due to poor sanitation
starvation and poverty due to crop failures
heavy taxes on possessions brought to the United States

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Answer:

A, B, C, D

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Answer:

  • discrimination from residents
  • struggles with poverty in their new home
  • hard jobs that were considered dangerous
  • the spread of disease due to poor sanitation

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The immigrants who arrived in Lusiana were mostly in search of better living conditions, since industrialization in Aemeruca was more promising than in their local countries. However, these immigrants faced a certain hostility from the Americans, who believed that the immigrants were in America to steal the jobs of the Americans and to occupy houses and services that should be used by the local inhabitants. This generated many cases of xenophobia, but the problems that immigrants faced went beyond that.

Immigrants were willing to work for lower wages and higher hours than Americans. Many of these immigrants did not even speak English properly, which meant that they were victims of a lot of exploitation and very low wages that made them live in a situation of poverty and misery. It was also not uncommon for them to be put on more dangerous jobs and caused health damage.

As they could not afford to pay for good places to live, they ended up piling up in ghettos that had no infrastructure and that the lack of basic resources, such as sanitation, allowed the proliferation of many contagious and often deadly diseases.

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