Due to the fact that America was the forerunner of many modern advancements and social reform it became quite prosperous. The economy was doing fairly well and the land was rife with opportunity. Naturally this was quite attractive to a host of European immigrants from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. Poles, Slavs, Jew, and Italians all flocked to the United States by the millions in search of opportunity. With the nations citizenry growing evermore culturally diverse everyone was sort of forced to focus less on where people came from. For decades this country had been referred to a melting pot because of the vast array of different cultures, customs, and ethnic groups; and the 1890s to 1920 is when most of that
Due to the fact that America was the forerunner of many modern advancements and social reform it became quite prosperous. The economy was doing fairly well and the land was rife with opportunity. Naturally this was quite attractive to a host of European immigrants from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. Poles, Slavs, Jew, and Italians all flocked to the United States by the millions in search of opportunity. With the nations citizenry growing evermore culturally diverse everyone was sort of forced to focus less on where people came from. For decades this country had been referred to a melting pot because of the vast array of different cultures, customs, and ethnic groups; and the 1890s to 1920 is when most of that