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Working Conditions
• Conditions for all workers deteriorated during the 1830’s
• . Skilled artisans, who had originally formed unions to preserve their own interests, began to ally them- selves with unskilled laborers
• Although only 1 or 2 percent of U.S. workers were organized, the
• !830s and 1840s saw dozens of strikes--many for higher wages, but some for a shorter workday.
Immigrations increases » European immigration rose dramatically in the United
States between 1830 and 1860. In the decade 184S-!8S4 alone nearly 3 million immigrants were added to the U.S. population that had numbered just over 20 million
• The majority of Immigrants were German and Irish men.
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