During the Taiping Rebellion, the peasants rebelled. It was mostly a civil war which killed scores of people (twenty million people approximately). The movement was a millenarian movement (meaning it occurred because of religious ideology). The movement was led by Hong Xiuquan who claimed he was Jesus' younger brother.
This question is probably connected to a story in whatever class your in but speaking for my immigrant parents.
They were probably scared crossing and getting caught being here. Keep in mind that many immigrants come here because this country is full of opportunities for a better for people’s future generations. Wherever they came from was keeping them away from that.
<span>Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev</span>
He was a Russian chemist and inventor. He formulated the Periodic Law, created a farsighted version of the periodic table of elements,
and used it to correct the properties of some already discovered
elements and also to predict the properties of eight elements yet to be
discovered.