IMMIGRATION

Answer sheet

Owing to the economic distress resulting from the industrial revolution, large numbers of Europeans were forced to/were made to/ were compelled to leave their homelands in order to seek freedom and security in the US, where they looked forward to settling down and starting from scratch, despite all the hardships they had to go through.

However difficult it may have been and despite all the obstacles they had to overcome before reaching the promised land where they looked forward to starting anew, large numbers of European emigrants, urged / spurred on / driven on by harsh economic conditions or religious conflicts, didn’t hesitate to uproot themselves and emigrat to the US, a country they considered to be a promised land, a land of opportunities.