One of the many ethnic groups that traveled to America consisted of the Arab Americans which are: the Lebanese and Syrian Americans, Egyptian Americans, Iraqi Americans, Palestinian Americans, Iranian Americans, Israeli Americans, and Turkish Americans. Arab Americans can trace back their ancestry to immigrants who arrived many years ago. At first many of the Americans believed that these immigrants would more likely be criminals or poor, but they soon found out that they were the opposite of that. The Lebanese and Syrians came from densely populated cities in areas of the Ottoman Empire. When they came to the United States they became peddlers who brought many essential goods to different communities. The importance of the Lebanese and Syrian
