@okie,
And to enable these inventors and the millions of other newcomers, the US government instituted a program of genocide upon Native Americans.
1890, nearly 300 men, women and children were slaughtered at Wounded Knee. Some 20 Medals of Dishonor were awarded to the brave soldiers who gunned down the "enemy".
The greed and the butchery didn't stop at the borders of this rich land, it was carried and visited upon countless innocents the world over.
After the Native Americans had been practically wiped off the face of the Earth, attention was turned to the Philippines and other Latin American countries where the rape and pillage continued unabated for the next century.