Most Polish men who arrived in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

a. headed for the prairies to become homesteaders.
b. used their professional backgrounds to set up businesses and professional practices.
c. refused to allow their wives or children to work for wages.
d. worked as unskilled laborers in factories, mines, and refineries.
e. returned to their homeland after an independent Poland was established following World War I.


d

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