Many Americans wanted to stop immigrants from entering the country. New immigrants meant more competition for jobs, since they were usually poor and willing to work for less money. Also new immigrants meant new races, religions and traditions. People found these new ideas hard to tolerate.

Immigrants had to somehow make a living when in America. Most of them ended up doing cheap labor getting paid maybe 5 cents an hour and sometimes working 18-hour work shifts. After finding some sort of steady income they had to have a place to live. Living space was not cheap and so some people lived with multiple people in a tiny apartment. Sometimes there were so many people that they would take turns sleeping. A few people might work during the day and the others sleep and then those people that were working would come home and those that were sleeping would then go to work and so on.

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