Compare And Contrast The Push And Pull Factors Of American Immigration

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Pre-civil war, 1850-1920, and current American immigrants can be very similar and different by their pull factors, push factors, and problems they faced. Pull factors include wants of the immigrant that brings them to America. Push factors are reasons they had to leave their homelands to come to America. Lastly, problems immigrants had coming to America or in their homeland. All these played a part in the reasons immigrants came to America All three time eras each had some of the same reasons why they came to America, or problems they have faced being an immigrant. Some or all immigrant came to America in each time era for religious freedom. Pre-civil war immigrants wanted religious freedom due to the king at the time in England who did

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