Question

Why did most immigrants choose to come to the United States in the nineteenth century? Question options: to leave lands where slavery was practiced to seek better economic opportunities to avoid political persecution by their governments to go where they could keep their cultures alive

Answer 1

Most immigrants chose to come to the United States in the Nineteenth century to seek better economic opportunities . Option B is correct.

The United States received major waves of immigrants during the colonial era, the first part of the 19th century and from the 1880s to 1920. Several immigrants came to America seeking greater economic opportunity.

Besides,  From the 17th to 19th centuries, hundreds of thousands of African slaves were forced to come to America.