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Immigration patterns during the Gilded Age with those of 1840s and 1850s. What were some of the reasons for and social effects of the changes?

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Answer: check explanation.

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The Gilded age is an era between eighteen-seventies(1870s) and the nineteen-hundreds(1900s). And, during this age there were about twelve(12) million people that migrated into America.

During the Gilded age, things were not going fine in the economy in Europe, so, many Europeans had to migrate to America. Most Europeans migrated to the North and West of America. The workers in America collected more wages as compare to their European counterparts working in Europe. In the Gilded age, Industrial-Organization in America was booming.

REASONS WHY PEOPLE MIGRATED TO AMERICA;

There were many people that migrated to America because of the Bad economy in Europe at the time and seek a better living. Some migrated to America because they wanted to be free from political persecution..

SOCIAL EFFECT OF THE CHANGES; though the migration of people into America caused poverty, it also helped people learn about different norms and culture which improves the social life of the people.

Also, many experts also migrated into America and this increase work input.

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