500 Word Essay Theme: Limited chances for upward mobility for American immigrants.    Based on American Yawp, Lectures, and Videos No other sources permitted; and Essay must include all three sources. 

What were the factors that shaped the lives of A.P. Giannini and Irene Gaines? What were the chances for European American men and African American women to alter their physical and social circumstances, within the historical contexts in which they resided? 

Module #2 1880-1920=, Chapters 16, 18, 20, PLUS Irene McCoy Gaines,  and Amadeo P. Giannini, Main theme: Beginning around 1880, a new group of migrants reached the U.Smembers of this group began their voyages in Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and in Southern and Eastern Europe. Americans living in the south also began another migration, this one to northern cities.  African Americans residing in the South were among the poorest Americans, and they enjoyed few of the protections of law and courts. For most European and African Americans, adult life consisted of mastering the problem of finding work. Those migrants, wherever their journeys began, lived their material, emotional, political, and social lives just as we do: by “raising” families, “getting” a living, buying and selling property, and migrating. Heres an additional idea to consider: Migrants did not seek some American Dream. Instead, a way of life (however defined and wherever they resided) was coming to an endand they departed in search of jobs and modest, secure lives for themselves and loved ones.