As immigrants from all over the world were arriving in the united states in forced the leaders to begin thinking of how these people would become part of new nation.How should they become Americans? Massive immigration led to the biggest question of all:"what is an american?" And oerhaps the most famous answer to the question was given by crevecoeur,a freshman,in 1783 "here individuals of all races are melted into a new race of men".More than a century later these same ideas were expressed in the myth of "the melting pot