Immigration.

In United States History, as we wrote it, it is mainly immigration. The Native Americans were horribly destroyed and killed, and today tiny fractions of them still live. Upon researching family's genealogy, I found out that my great grandmother might have been half Native American. Interesting! Just about every part of my father's side is German since they came to the Americas pre-Revolution. My mother's side hasn't kept up their records.. so all I know is that they were mainly Scottish, and came to the United States a while after it became the United States. But how did Immigration affect us in the early 1900s?

It redefined what it meant to be an American. Settlers had poured in for centuries, but at this rate? And think about when they came in, right after the Civil War. An American was a person who had fought for what they believed in, from Revolution, to creation of the States, and then the Civil War. America had been defined.

And yet new citizens poured in. Ones who hadn't the last thought or care of the Civil War, who didn't know much of the Revolution. They were, truly, outsiders. They weren't American by that time's standard. That changed the United States. No longer were we a Nation of Settlers who overcame their homeland, brothers and sisters who fought and made peace with one another, we were now foreigners living amoungst each other.