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Many immigrants searched for settlements that were made up of people from their original countries. These settlements would contain schools that taught the traditional lessons and knowledge that the immigrants brought to the country. Other immigrants would teach their children in their homes.
Immigrants went to school in America because the law came to require all children to go to school. Older immigrants went to school because, as a free country, doing so could not be forbidden if they could find the time and a school to take them, and because they expected to be better able to get ahead if they did.
answered by: anomus The Immigrants would take jobs from the Americans
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Many Americans have resented immigrants throughout American history because they believed that immigrants were taking jobs by offering to work for less money. The irony of the situation is that many of those people were immigrants or their parents were immigrants at some point.
German immigrants have had many successes. There are many German immigrants that own their own businesses and have made successful careers for themselves. Mesut Ozil and Sami Khedira are German immigrants that have become great footballers.
Natives disliked the new immigrants because they (took jobs from white Americans).