Summary Of A Quilt Of A Country And The Immigrant Contribution

When I read “ A Quilt of a Country” and “ The Immigrant Contribution”, it opened my eyes to a new point of view on immigrants in the U.S. and all the good things they have done. If we didn't have immigrants we wouldn’t be the same nation as we are now. Immigrants are the true creators of the U.S. Oscar Handlin has said,” Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.”(Kennedy pg.23) Everyone in the US are or have been descendents of immigrants. The story “A Quilt Of A Country” states that “A mongrel nation built of every changing disparate parts, it is held together by a nation, the nation that all men are created equal.” (Quindlen pg.13) Everyone has a different background but that makes the US special compared to other nations that are divided. The immigrants all had hope moving
There were 56 signers and 18 were non-english stocks. Another part was “A german farmer wrote home from Missouri in 1834, If you wish to see our whole family living in… a country where freedom of speech obtains, where no spies are eavesdropping, where no simpletons criticize your every word and seek to detect therein a venom that might endanger the life of the state,