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Multicultural America For Students: U.S. Immigrants

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Takes a look at immigration into the United States over the millennia! Gives an important point that everyone in America immigrated from another part of the world, even the native peoples. What brought people to this continent? What similarities do we all share? What does the future hold? Immigration has always been a crucial issue in the United States. Discovers attitudes about immigration, learns why millions emigrate to America, follows how immigrants effect national culture, and expresses how Ellis Island played a major role with the U.S.'s first immigrants.

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