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American Dream Project

If you look around, you can see a racial mix of people. Asians, Hispanics, Caucasian and Black. After the Civil War, many countries were chaotic financially. Oscar Handlin stated, ¡°Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were italicize for American history¡± (Kennedy, 64). Like Oscar Handlin said, many people from various countries moved to the United States and it encouraged American Industry¡¯s development. In the constitutional convention, James Madison noted, ¡°That part of America which has encouraged them (the immigrants) has advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts¡± (Kennedy, 69).
In the nineteenth century, the rate of immigration increased. The population was 150,000 in the 1820¡¯s, 1.7 million in the 1840¡¯s, 2.8 million in the 1870¡¯s, 5.2 million in the 1880¡¯s, and increased up to 8.8 million in the 1st decade of the twentieth century. (Kennedy, 17)
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