Immigration is an event that has been occurring in the United States since the 1620's when the Mayflower brought the Pilgrims to our country. Like the Pilgrims, many immigrants came to our nation looking for opportunities that their country could not provide for them. Through the years, immigration has played a key role in the development of our nation's economics and culture in both positive and negative ways.

From Europe and Africa, from Canada and Asia, from Mexico and South America, people have come to the United States. Here they have found work, opened shops, raised families, built schools and churches, and formed social clubs and sporting teams. Their history illustrates the common experiences and the shared realities of all the immigrants who have worked, worshipped, lived and died, laughed, prospered and sometimes

failed in our country. From the first settlements of the Quaker, Puritans, and Catholics, Americans have welcomed immigrants with "opened arms." In the 1890-1910's there was a need for cheap labor. Immigrants saw this need as a chance to search for a new life, and to start over with new religious freedoms and economic opportunities. In America's history, there have been many men who have helped our nation develop into what Americans live in today. Without immigrants such as Alexander Graham Bell, Albert Einstein, and Samuel Slater many of the technological advantages such as the telephone, medicines, and factories we have today, would cease to exist. Thanks to immigrants, the United States continues to progress in many areas to make it the most successful nation in the world.

Although most immigrants are an asset to our nation, there are those who effect this country in a negative way. When looking for

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