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[BLANK-1] occurred mostly in port cities along the Atlantic Seaboard. Men were usually the first to come to the United States and they would later send for their families. These new Americans were poorer than most and lacked the capital, education, and skills needed to buy a farm or operate as an artisan. They tended to settle in large coastal cities in the Northeast and work in low-skill, low-wage urban jobs. They were frequently compared to African Americans and newspapers of the era depicted them with apelike features.