What is the significance of steerage?
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Do you know what steerage is?
It's the cheapest deck on a ship.
Right. What did steerage have to do with immigration to the U.S.?
It was where hundreds of immigrants lived on the journey to America.
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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