Poltical Cartoon

Back in the day when the settlers were just moving to america they were coming from England mainly for religous freedom. Also back then theres was nobody to limit the coming over of the immigrants. In the political cartoon it demonstrates how later on the government started to limit the amount of immigrants that were coming to america. It also shows that as time passes the government is letting less and less immigrants come to america by "closing the gate" and undoing their warm welcome. When the pilgrims were coming they saw America as the country of freedom the country that would accept each and everyone as what they are and get to know them as an American. As the cartoon shows much of this has change so there is only one question: "What is an American".