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My father and I leave Ireland because we are too poor to keep our farm up and running.
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The girl I am bunking with on the boat gets really sick in the night, and I get sick as well. I barely pass the immigration station exams.
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When my dad and I get off the boat in New York, a group of boys stole all of our possessions. We were left with nothing.
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I find work and go and live in a tenement. I work as a cook and watch over children. I meet my future husband, who works building the railroad.
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This act allowed everyone 160 additional acres of land if they were willing to plant some trees on the land.
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My husbands work place had awful conditions. Also, his work was done w/ the railroad. Gold Rushes, mining, land, and opportunity.
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I get pregnant, then my husband is shot. After the baby is born everything gets a lot harder for me- twice as much work.
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I decide to go to Oklahoma in hopes of getting land for myself, and building a farm. I meet my next husband.
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I get remarried, and together we participate in the land rush, and successfully claim our land.
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We build a farm, and have six more kids. We live the rest of our lives free of our previous hardship of poverty.
