Asked by Victoria

What is the significance of steerage?
Answered by Ms. Sue
Do you know what steerage is?

Answered by Victoria
It's the cheapest deck on a ship.
Answered by Ms. Sue
Right. What did steerage have to do with immigration to the U.S.?
Answered by Victoria
It was where hundreds of immigrants lived on the journey to America.
Answered by Ms. Sue
Right -- although it was more like thousands and thousands of immigrants. Steerage class was the only way they could afford the expensive voyage across the ocean.
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