I Came A Stranger Sparknotes

To immigrate is to “come into a country which one is not a native for permanent residence.” During the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, America went through a great transformation. Countless families fled their home countries to immigrate to the United States of America due to job shortages, crop failure, and discrimination in new hope to find a more promising life overseas. This great immigration made the United State of America a rising empire powerhouse, and between “1895 and 1915, the United States of America transformed itself from an isolationist country to a world empire.” While they came over with full hearts and hope for an overall better life, the labor and feminist politics of the era was a great burden on the shoulders of the new incomers. Hilda Satt Polacheck’s memoir, I Came a Stranger:
Hilary Clinton is running for President of the United States and holds the possibility to become the United States’ first female president. Political views were not only uninfluential, but practically nonexistent. It was not until the ratification of the nineteenth amendment for the election of 1920 that allowed women to vote and changed the politics for good. Along with strict social responsibilities, lack of political influence also effected Hilda in her transition to the United States. She first realized her lack of influence when she asked if her “mother could vote for him since her father died” and her teacher took her in her arms and explained that women did not have the right to vote. Clearly portrayed in this instance is another time Hilda began to realize the second class treatment of women. Shortly after she began to question why the only way she could help the war is “to wear a button with the forbidden word on it.” Women struggled with intensively and had “no voice” in the way the country was ran. It is as if they made money, but had to choice of how to spend it, only the men