Many people viewed the newly opening west as a golden opportunity to make money. Which passage best describes one of these groups of people known as "Land
Speculators?"

Speculators bought western lands in large quantities and land companies organized and entered great tracts embracing entire townships. At the same time, land grants given the railroad companies to encourage the building of transcontinental lines attracted a great deal of speculative purchase.They create much larger markets than would exist if only builders purchased land, allowing farmers and other owners greater opportunities to convert their properties into cash. In times such as the present, speculators make up a substantial part of whatever urban land market exists and prevent the bottom dropping out.

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The united state experienced major waves of immigration during the colonial era. the first part of the 19th century and from the 1800s and 1900s. many immigrants came to America seeking greater economic opportunity while some as the pilgrims in the early 1600s arrived in search of religious freedom, from the 17th and 19th centuries hundreds of thousands of African slaves came to America against their on will the first significant federal legislation restricting immigration was the 1882 Chinese exclusion act . individual states regulated immigrating prior to the 1982 opening of Ellis land the country's first federal  immigration station. new laws in 1965 ended the quota system that favored European immigrants and today the majority of the country's immigrants hail from Asia and Latin America.. 
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