WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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famine
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land ownership
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economic opportunity
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religious genocide
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Detailed explanation-1: -Economic push factors of immigration include poverty, overpopulation, and lack of jobs.
Detailed explanation-2: -Push factors may include conflict, drought, famine, lack of jobs, and discrimination. Pull factors are those factors in the destination country that attract the individual or group to leave their home. Better economic opportunities, more jobs, and the promise of a better life often pull people into new locations.
Detailed explanation-3: -Political instability, food insecurity, lack of economic opportunity, and violence are push factors that motivate migrants to pursue a new life in another country.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the late 1800s, people in many parts of the world decided to leave their homes and immigrate to the United States. Fleeing crop failure, land and job shortages, rising taxes, and famine, many came to the U. S. because it was perceived as the land of economic opportunity.