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1.  I think the most important thing I learned about immigration from the 19th century is chain migration. In the late 19th century when the Irish were coming to the US, the first newcomer would settle in and then eventually make arrangements for family members to come. This is the most important thing I learned because while this emigration pattern completely makes sense, I never knew it happened. And, I think it is important for me to know about this because it still happens now with all the hispanic immigration into the US which is a very popular current topic, so it is good that I know this because now I have more of a knowledge base to understand the current immigration problems in greater depth.

2.  I think the most important thing I have learned about immigration now is the push factors for getting out of a country. I knew the people fleeing to America were not in the best country before, but I hadn't realized the full extent of the lack of safety. Thus, being able to now know how much of a death sentence living in certain countries is has given me the ability to empathize with illegal immigrants and understand why they are desperate to come to the US which is why this is the most important thing I learned.

3. I think the two most difficult things would be trying to find a job with little to no education and not having safe food to eat. I would say Americans who struggled to find jobs were successful as many of them just went to work in factories. However, I would not say they were successful in creating a positive future for themselves because factory wages were way to low to support a family, and the conditions were so unsafe that being injured or killed wasn't a rarity. I would say America was successful in finding safe food to eat because the citizens' protests and attention drawn to the food industry caused laws to be changed and the food to be much more regulated and safer.

4. The High Line has progressivistic elements to it such as instead of choosing to tear down the abandoned, ugly railroad tracks, they instead asked what can we turn it into, which led to the creation of the High Line, and this is similar to the progressive era because of the creativity. Another progressive idea is Joshua David and Robert Hammond choosing to collaborate and create Friends of the High Line to save the High Line from being torn down. Not only did they collaborate in joining this, but they also collaborated with the whole community because they held an ideas competition that anyone could submit ideas to. Thus, the collaboration and imagination involved in building the High Line were also used in the progressive movement. However, the idea to create the High Line is innately contradictory to progressivism ideals because the progressive nature activists believed in the protection and nurturing of nature outside of the city. Progressives believed more in setting aside land outside of rural areas to keep it untouched and full of natural resources which is why they created national parks first. Thus, the actual idea of creating a park in an urban setting from old rail road tracks is very unprogressive. And, instead the progressives probably would've chosen to demolish it due to the fact it was not aesthetically pleasing, possibly a safety hazard, and the traintracks themselves were rooted in industrialism because they were train tracks used in factories and progressives were against unregulated industrialism which is what the train tracks represented.

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The High Line