History of Economics Term Paper

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Industrial Revolution one sees an increase in immigration to the United States. These pull factors can also account for why one sees a trend in migration west within the United States during this time. Technology made it possible for people to travel further and faster because of not only canals and trains but also improved technologies applied to horse drawn wagons and carriages. It seems that as Americans living on the east coast, already established in their jobs started moving west to take advantage of new work made available by displacement of Native Americans and free land; more Europeans came to eastern American cities. Once these immigrants became established they followed the pattern out west.

There is no conclusive data to determine if labor played a role in pulling emigrants out of Europe.
Still this pull factor remains essential to America's development as a nation. From an economic standpoint, one would argue a better life begins with better employment and access to higher wages. Due to America's internal migration, there was opportunity for Europeans to move across the Atlantic. This pull factor can only be found if capacity for expansion was rapid, if technical progress was not labor saving and if migrant response to real wage differentials was highly elastic. These factors can be found in….....

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