Immigration Dbq

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All of these are important reasons that contributed to the immigrants in the New World in becoming Americans. However, answer D: common faith in democracy and freedom, is crucial. Answer A is true in the effects that they wouldn’t have been here without the physical separation, but that has nothing to do with them being Americans versus translated, or as I like to think of it, displaced Europeans. Answer B is an imperative part as well. But considering that the phrase “wall of separation between church and state,” as written by Thomas Jefferson in a letter, would be coined in 1802, the shared religious devotion would not remain the same. Yes, they believed in God, but that’s not what made them Americans, considering they would soon allow all

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