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Given the challenges following unification in Italy, analyze why Italians were driven to immigrate to more nations with greater opportunity.

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Mostly, the cause were the taxes on the wheat flour. The rise of the price forced the poor to leave their land. And obviously a unification Italy gave the opportunity to use the commercial fleet of the Sardinia Kingdom to reach America.
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