why people migrated from Europe to America ?
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Back in the 1840s-1860s, European countries like Germany, Italy, Sweden or Ireland had a far worse standard of living than the US, and were generally worse countries to live in if you weren’t of privileged birth.The feudal system was still in force in large parts of Germany, Poland, Ireland and Scandinavia making life tough and hard for ordinary village people and peasants. On top of that, the only thing that used to be respected in the European society of old was Birth - not even money. So not even entrepreneurs who made a fair deal of money but were of humble birth could get the same social status, recognition and financial security that a less-capable person from a Noble/feudal family could.
In large parts of North-Eastern Europe, the feudal landlords, through their economic control over land and property, exerted an overpowering control over all aspects of village life. There were a lot of social restrictions on European peasants. For example, no matter how rich a peasant was, he was not allowed to build a house bigger and taller than that of the feudal landlord.
In some countries like Ireland or Poland, even constant starvation/undernourishment was a routine affair for people in the countryside. Mass famines and droughts was quite common too. In Ireland and Poland most of the feudal class were not even locals/natives to begin with.Most European countries at this time also had far fewer employment opportunities than the US. Industrialization hadn’t yet started as much as it had in the US/UK and thus employment in the cities and industries was far lower. This further strengthened the stranglehold of the feudal class over the peasantry in the countryside. Thus they could not migrate to the Cities looking for work. Nearly 70% of the populations of most European countries lived in villages/rural areas well until the 1890s. In Finland, for example, as late as the 1920s, almost half of the population used to be rural and dependent upon the agricultural economy.
The above situations led to dissatisfaction among members of the lower-middle classes and the peasantry and the US was at that time a much more attractive place. This situation had generally been alleviated in Europe by the late 1950s-early 1960s and indeed has become far better than in the US over the course of the last 50 years.
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Back in the 1840s-1860s, European countries like Germany, Italy, Sweden or Ireland had a far worse standard of living than the US, and were generally worse countries to live in if you weren’t of privileged birth.The feudal system was still in force in large parts of Germany, Poland, Ireland and Scandinavia making life tough and hard for ordinary village people and peasants. On top of that, the only thing that used to be respected in the European society of old was Birth - not even money. So not even entrepreneurs who made a fair deal of money but were of humble birth could get the same social status, recognition and financial security that a less-capable person from a Noble/feudal family could.
In large parts of North-Eastern Europe, the feudal landlords, through their economic control over land and property, exerted an overpowering control over all aspects of village life. There were a lot of social restrictions on European peasants. For example, no matter how rich a peasant was, he was not allowed to build a house bigger and taller than that of the feudal landlord.
In some countries like Ireland or Poland, even constant starvation/undernourishment was a routine affair for people in the countryside. Mass famines and droughts was quite common too. In Ireland and Poland most of the feudal class were not even locals/natives to begin with.Most European countries at this time also had far fewer employment opportunities than the US. Industrialization hadn’t yet started as much as it had in the US/UK and thus employment in the cities and industries was far lower. This further strengthened the stranglehold of the feudal class over the peasantry in the countryside. Thus they could not migrate to the Cities looking for work. Nearly 70% of the populations of most European countries lived in villages/rural areas well until the 1890s. In Finland, for example, as late as the 1920s, almost half of the population used to be rural and dependent upon the agricultural economy.
The above situations led to dissatisfaction among members of the lower-middle classes and the peasantry and the US was at that time a much more attractive place. This situation had generally been alleviated in Europe by the late 1950s-early 1960s and indeed has become far better than in the US over the course of the last 50 years.
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