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What did many immigrants realize after moving to America?

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It was not actually easy to become rich

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Define the underlined word as it is used in this excerpt from Shutting Out the Sky.

Immigrant Pauline Newman led a rent strike in her Madison Street tenement building in 1907, when she was about nineteen years old. When the landlord asked for a rent increase, she organized the tenants, who told the landlord they would pay higher rent if he would put a toilet in the hall.

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a refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest