JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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to acquire cheap land
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to obtain voting rights
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to gain religious converts
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to escape indentured servitude
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Detailed explanation-1: -Of course, the biggest “pull” factor was opportunity. In the nineteenth century, some regions seemed to provide much opportunity. This pulled lots of voluntary migrants. Europeans, for example, saw the United States, Canada, and Latin America as having a lot of opportunity.
Detailed explanation-2: -Which pull factor accounted for much of Chinese immigration to the United States in the mid-1800s? A famine caused by the failure of a staple food crop.
Detailed explanation-3: -The idea of Manifest Destiny arose in response to the prospect of U.S. annexation of Texas and to a dispute with Britain over the Oregon Country, which became part of the union.
Detailed explanation-4: -Contents. In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson purchased the territory of Louisiana from the French government for $15 million. The Louisiana Purchase stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to New Orleans, and it doubled the size of the United States.
Detailed explanation-5: -Chinese immigrants first flocked to the United States in the 1850s, eager to escape the economic chaos in China and to try their luck at the California gold rush. When the Gold Rush ended, Chinese Americans were considered cheap labor.