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DIANA SAGINI
FALL 2007
URBS 310
CLASS 13968

The role of immigration in shaping American cities
The United States of America is correctly defined as a melting pot of cultures, and a people because it is not a homogenous nation. People from all over the world can be found living closely together, some even harmoniously live together despite their different ethnicities. This has not always been the case because America’s initial habitants were Native Americans, who were then invaded by and conquered by Europeans mostly from Northwestern Europe. Many years after initial contact with America, the Europeans brought African slaves with them, and these slaves are the ancestors of modern day African Americans.
In the first 50 years of this new America 95% of the settlers lived on farms and in small villages. But as more people arrived into America, they expanded further into the Americas taming the wild land into farms and small settlements. Consequently, as more people......

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