different reasons. Some already have family living in America, some come for
113, work and some are "refugees who had to leave their own country. All these
people from many different countries and cultures have made America..
The graph shows where these *recent immigrants have come from. In the
1800s, many people from Europe came to America. These people mainly came
from Germany, Ireland and England, and came to look for better jobs and
freedom. The number of these people now is much smaller than it was 120
years ago.
Although small numbers of Chinese people went to America looking for gold
in the 1800s, for a long time people from Asia were not able to immigrate to
America. However, because of law changes in the 1950s and 1960s, the number
