Step-by-step explanation:
.Beginning with its first inhabitants, who crossed the land bridge that connected Asia and North America tens of thousands of years ago, America has always been a nation of immigrants.
.The first Europeans arrived in what would eventually become the United States in the 1500s, led by the Spanish and French.
. At Jamestown in the Virginia Colony, the English established their first permanent settlement in modern-day America in 1607.
.A greater proportion of immigrants arrived in America looking for work.
.During the colonial era, enslaved people from West Africa were another category of unwelcome immigrants.
.These newcomers were primarily from Northern and Western Europe.