Mainly from Europe more specifically Germany ,Ireland, England and France due to various problems such as crop failure. They have also immigrated because of Christopher Columbus's voyages of the new world.
I think that is false because people didnt want them because then didnt want to be independent
Answer:
the war in Afghanistan had drained the nation's resources
Explanation:
Mikhail Gorbachev is often seen as the person responsible for the breaking up of the Soviet Union, and to some point that is true. The Soviet economy started to stagnate during the 1970's, and one reason for that was that the economy was drained because of the war in Afghanistan. In order to try and boost the economy, Gorbachev decided to make some reforms, most noticeably the Glasnost and Perestroika reforms. Instead of boosting the economy, these reforms actually gave the platform and freedom for the Soviet states to break apart from the Soviet Union, and so it happened at the beginning of the 1990's.
Exploration of the new world was encouraged by a desire for direct trade routes by sea.
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