Question

Traditionally, immigrants had come to America for economic opportunity and Use the quotation and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following questions. “The foreigner coming to these shores is more impressed at first by our skyscrapers. . . . In the daylight they are ugly. . . . But at night, seen from the river where they are columns towering against the sky, all sparkling with light, they are fairylike; they are beauty more satisfactory to the soul than anything man has dreamed since the Arabian nights.” —Mark Twain