How did immigrants and minority groups change American cities before the Civil War? 1 They created a cultural melting pot.
2 They chartered nativist organizations.
3 They wrote new manufacturing laws.
4 They established municipal councils.

It was a future setting allows for a sharp contrast between the present-day society of year 1961 and the future 2081. He describe it to show he sees the future of humanity that the once dream of the oppressed and the undermined is equality become a reality in the future and gives hope to continue and strive for the future.