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https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/tenements
due to low wages immigrants could only afford bad living conditions that often made everyone sick one bedroom and outhouse for the whole building no light or fresh air -
protect big businesses
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young children would have to get jobs to help their families and there jobs was low paying and dangerous. children working as young as 5
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made sure that the chinese were excluded out of america for sure
after helping build the railroads
