Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Reasons for emigration
- Wages
- better than those working in large
factories in Europe
- Persecution
- many people in europe were
persecuted for religious reasons
- overcrowding
- increasing population in Europe meant
there was a shortage of land
- natural resources
- land was cheap
- rich supply of oil, timber and
minerals
- lack of opportunity
- Europe sill in a class system - lower classes
hard to escape
- economic opportunity
- created lots of work
- opportunity to set up new business
- space
- cities had plenty of
space to expand
- land of the free
- American bill of Right 1791 - guaranteed
freedom of religion speech and press
- unemployment
- many european workers out of
work towards end of 19th century