Why did the emigrants of Lithuania come to Chicago? What were they looking for?
Explain the living conditions they experienced? Fine TWO quotes that describe their living environment
Lithuanian immigrants who come to America to work in the meatpacking plants of Chicago. They want the "American dream". They are escaping their own poverty and opression only to find conditions in Chicago are not any better.
What had made the discovery all the more painful was that they were spending, at American prices, money which they had earned at home rates of wages – and so were really being cheated by the world! The last two days they had all but starved themselves – it made them quite sick to pay the prices that the railroad people asked them for food. ch 2
