My name is Julia, and I am a student at CtMS. As an assignment for history, we had to create a website from the perspective of an immigrant during the Industrial Revolution. We were allowed to choose who our immigrant was, where they came from, and were allowed to give them any characteristics we wanted. Our teacher gave us a basic outline for what we had to talk about, and we could work from there. My website is meant to share a story of my (fictional) immigrant, Anna Vavin, and to tell people about the struggles that immigrants faced during the industrial revolution and progressive era.
As I was working on this website, I learned many things about what immigrants experienced. America was thought of as the land of the free, and many immigrants traveled to it because of this fact, but found out that it wasn't as amazing as they thought. In America, immigrants, especially women, faced many challenges, including bias, unfair conditions, and much more. In all, after doing this project, I better understand what the immigrants went through and the struggles they experienced.