The Immigrant's Impact On The Steel Industry

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America was shaped by immigrants and their ideas. Immigrant’s have had a big impact on America and our daily life’s wild would not be the same. One inventor that has had lots of impact on our life’s is Andrew Carnegie who had impact on the steel industry. Andrew was a immigrant from Dunfermline, Scotland. Kennedy and Quinlan might have the same point of view of America and be writing about the same thing but, there are many differences also.
Some of the things that the authors do similar is they both describe the type of things the immigrants brought us or taught us. In The Immigrant Contribution Kennedy stated how their inventions changed the way America is (kennedy pg. 24 paragraph 6). Every aspect of American economy has profited from

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