In America there was a lot of land for not many people. Immigration was encouraged so the poor from Ireland, Italy, Eastern Europe and other places came. Soon there was no majority of people just many minorities. Later laws were passed such as people had to be literate in English to enter the country. The people that came all had the same ‘American Dream’ that they could be happy and prosperous in the ‘Land of the free.’ They thought that they could leave behind the poverty of there lives on there home countries and become rich in America.
In America a group of people known as W.A.S.Ps (White Anglo Saxon Pr