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| Over the span of about 100 years, more than 60 million Europeans came to settle in America, the land of opportunity. They mostly settled in parts of cities with others of their own country, the Irish, German especially. This caused massive hardship and unemployment, but eventually the formed the cultural and ethnic backbone of the United States. | Chapter 14 Page 592 .: 8th Edition :. |