Building a Community Together
Pupils explore how immigrants from different backgrounds gradually built a shared community.
Key Questions
- 1How did people from different backgrounds learn to live together?
- 2What organisations did immigrants create to help one another?
- 3How did different cultures mix to create something new?
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