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Growing Up In Mexico In The 1900's

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Growing up in Mexico was very dangerous and very hard to make a living in the 1900’s. Many left because of violence from the Revolution that was taking over the Country by storm. With a country that offered no jobs or feasible areas to live, the only other human intuition was to pack up and leave to find a better life. As a Mexican traveling north to America, you only had hope to go on for a better life. Life in America would bring income, food, security, and the pursuit of happiness for any Mexicans willing to take the journey to America. Mexicans saw a country that was offering opportunity and prosperity, a country that was so young and take the influx of Mexicans and still have enough for more. Around 1900, nearly 100,000 Mexicans lived

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