The Declaration and Immigration
...king place where she had been working. She was acting like a true America by excising her rights. In actuality, where she worked was more of a sweatshop. Hilda was unhappy with her job, not because she did not like the job but because the working conditions were terrible and unfair. Hilda had some education and was continuing to receive an education while working. She attended Hull-House. Many of her co-workers to not come forward about the working conditions because she were uneducated and did not know better. She sought to pursuit happiness and equality for herself, her family, as well as her co-workers. The long hard hours of labor was simply not worth the wages, the unfair working conditions only added to the Hilda’s problem. She accomplished her happiness by speaking out about the unbearable working conditions she had to put up with. She was able to organize the union soon after. Although she was soon fired, this only broadened her ambitions. Hull-House gave Hilda the education and desire she needed. Jane Adams who ran Hull-House, applied the Doctrines of the Declaration of Independence to life. She recognized Hilda as an immigrant who had all the qualifications, principles, and desires of a true American. Beecher would urge many Christians to start putting up churches as well. Beecher is paranoid, Americans do not have to rush out and teach Christianity to prevent other religions from overwhelming America. McNabb may have lost her job, but it was her own choice, she wasn’t fired, she left due to a conflict of interests. McNabb, although ignorant in Religion, is anything but un-American, many immigrants are poor and uneducated in Religion and beliefs. Instead immigrants listen to people with higher educations, people who are part of the church. They devote their faith, logic, and knowledge to everything the church teaches them. McNabb came to America to pursuit her happiness. She worked hard, saved, and purchased a home. She rented rooms and became finically successful living the American Dream. Her family was also become successful as well. They started their own businesses and even asked to borrow money from Hilda. If McNabb had been educated as an American she would have understood her boss was human and regardless of her religion she was still created equal just like Hilda. Lyman Beecher would argue too many Europeans like Ann McNabb will soon overrun America with their European beliefs. Beecher believed people of certain religions were coming to America and setting up their churches in hopes to invade America and dominate. McNabbs first job in America is cut short because of her prejudice towards people which are Jewish. Equality is certainly something Americans have tried to uphold in the Declaration of Independence. Santino was not what Antin would consider to be an American. He was ignorant and a bad drunk. Santino was definitely pursuing happiness. He drank too much visit saloons and on occasion would beat his wife. However he did not consider how his happiness would effect others. Although Santino was happy in his life in America, he did not treat his wife as an equal let alone a human being, nor did he respect the rights of the women he visited in the Saloons regardless if they were prostitutes or not. Santino partly followed the Declaration of Independence, he does not practice or believe the same principles, which an American would. Marie Antin acknowledges, many immigrants came to America to pursuit happiness. Santinos wife, Rosa fled from Italy in order to make a better life for herself. Not only was she overjoyed at the abundance of food in her new found home in America, but she was also allowed to practice her religion thanks to the Liberty the untied states was founded on. There were not just Italians living near the mining camp, but Germans as well. Rosa would often have to trade and barter livestock with many of the German women both groups understood the Doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, just like the Americans who welcomed Rosa into their homes and taught her to speak English. The German women in the village were kind to her and made it their mission to be as helpful as possible to a new immigrant, such as Rosa. This demonstrates the equality these two groups of people expressed towards each other, which is yet another principle of the American fundamental law. Seyffardt came from a financially successful family, he immediately purchased land on his arrival in America. He quickly managed to own a saw mill and have a team of people work for him and his wife. Towards the end of his letters, he writes how h...