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Getting Here

Words to Understand emigrate leave one’s home country to live in another country exodus a mass departure of people from one place to another exploited unfairly benefit from someone else’s work immigrants people who have left their home country and moved to another unification the process of making several independent states into a single political whole A t the end of the 19th century, smoke was rising from the face of the Earth around the world. It billowed into the air from engines that powered trains, mining equipment, and factories. The advanced technology of the Industrial Rev- olution was changing the world. Railroad tracks were being laid with incredible speed, connecting the coasts of America and the countries of Europe. Cities grew up around factories that employed thousands of workers, churning out everything from cloth to steel. In Italy, though, there wasn’t much coal or petroleum to feed the hungry ma-

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