During the immigration boom of 1880-1920 large numbers of british, german, greek, hungarian, irish, italian, polish, and other slavic speaking people came to america. select one group and in a brief paragraph describe why this group was optimistic about coming to america. conduct a brief web quest to support your response.

the group i'm selecting: greeks.

a first group of greek immigrants came to the us in the 1850s. the second group came to america starting in the 1890s due to economic opportunities they didn't have back in their home caused by the hardships of ottoman rule. greek immigration was 90% male, many of them expected to work and return to greece after earning enough capital, but ultimately had to remain in the us after the greek genocide.

in 550 b.c.e. cyrus the great, the leader of the persians, conquered the medes and united the iranian people under one ruler for the first time. cyrus became the first king of the persian empire and went on to establish one of the largest empires in world.

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