Religion was a major cause of the English Civil War. It was part of a Europe wide conflict between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. At the start of his reign (1625) King Charles I had married the Roman Catholic Henrietta Maria of France.
Many people who immigrated to the United States during the Gilded Age moved to...
Urban areas, where they worked in factories.
You see, many businesses opened factories in urban areas, creating jobs, so immigrants moved to these areas in order to work for these new companies.