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During this time period America was industrializing. The immigrants wanted to be in a country that was industrialized. America was the second country to do this, after Britain. The countries the immigrants came from weren't industrialized yet so they wanted to come here.

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because of the famines and wars in the other countries and they also wanted some freedom and some free land.

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