Since the beginning there was always something for everyone in America. Weather it were a good factor about the U.S. or a bad factor about their country something always encouraged people to come here.
             United States as a country was created by immigrants and their difference from any other country in the world is that all most all the people who live there are immigrants or descendants of immigrants. The reasons people emigrate from other countries is that the United States offers opportunity and a chance for growth and economic gain. In addition, many were driven by war, famine, economic hardship, persecution and environmental changes.
             The American Indians were the first immigrants who arrived in North America during the Ice Age, sometime between 30,000 B.C and 12,000 B.C. They crossed the Bering Strait on a land bridge that then connected Alaska to Siberia, and 300 years before Columbus "discovered" America, 40,000 newcomers, in what is now St. Louis, Missouri, had built a trade center.
             By 1492, when Christopher Columbus made his voyage, there were 20 million people spread across North America and South America. They had different religions, cultures and spoke many different languages. About 1 million Indians representing 200 tribes lived in this country, and not until the 1600's did the English settlements begin.
             The fact that majority of the first European Settlers in North America were English had for reaching consequences. English became the language of the law; colonists followed English models when setting their legal, political and religious institutions.
             The 18th century ushered in a new era of immigration; Scot-Irish, German, Huguenot (French Protestant), Scottish, Welsh and Jewish. From 1860-1880, immigration to the United States numbered 5 million. About 200,000 Chinese arrived, and great numbers of French Canadian migrate to New England. The Jewish settled in Mid-Atlantic regions of New Y...