From the early 1800s to the early 1900s an enormous amount of immigrants from all over the world came to America looking for a better life. These immigrants came to because of more jobs, better pay, and hard times in their home country. To begin, many of these foreigners immigrated to America looking for better pay. According to George Kokkas, a Greek immigrant, in 1967, “ a worker in Greece made about five dollars a day, when a worker’s pay in the United States was about thirty dollars a day” (Doc. 3). In short, workers in America were paid much more than worker in the countries where immigrants came from. In addition, immigrants came to America because of more jobs. In the early 1900s at the peak of immigration, the US had an industrial
