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Florence Blackmoore, due to her exceptional reading and writing skills and experience as a teacher in England, gets approval and financial support from the local municipal authority to start her own school, specializing in English. You are thankful you already know the local language so well.

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With time, the family secures enough economic stability to send your daughters to the Lutheran Vocational School for Ladies until they are 18.

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The relationships you have developed with British landowners at the Masonic lodge was helpful in securing land for a good price.

With money saved from the land purchase, you find you have enough money to hire some of the many immigrants moving West looking for land and work.

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The nearest Catholic church is 30 miles away and mostly Irish immigrant workers attend, and Catholics are looked down upon in the town in which you live.

A decision must be made.

A. Spiritual Traditions

B. Well Spoken and Well Read

C. Romantic Belonging to America

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You use the money from the land you sold in England to buy an even larger piece of land out West for a lower price.

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However, all local farmers and businessmen in the small town belong to the local Freemason chapter, but this chapter does not allow Catholics. Although it is nice to be around other British people, most of the British in your area are Episcopalians, Methodists, or Congregationalists. Your Catholicism is seen as suspicious.

What will you give up to better fit in?

A. Spiritual Traditions

B. Well Spoken and Well Read

C. Romantic Belonging to America

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Welcome to Ellis Island, gateway to the United States for everyone without a first or second class ticket. This is how over 12 million people will enter the U.S.—In fact, over 40% of all Americans can trace their roots to someone who passed through here.

Welcome to the Melting Pot!

You will need to fit in, so hard decisions must be made.

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MEMBERS:

Richard Blackmoore age 45 (father)

Florence Blackmoore, age 34 (mother)

Catherine Blackmoore, age 14 (daughter)

Rose Blackmoore, age 7 (daughter)

OCCUPATION:

Farming, small business

FROM:

County Devon, England

MIGRATION TO STATES:

1905, seeking increased opportunity for land purchase and financial gain

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