It was the motive of obtaining as many raw materials as possible from Africa that was the most powerful in terms of European imperialism, since this was during the Industrial Revolution, which greatly increased the demand for such materials in Europe.
The most powerful was economic prosperity of European countries. They could exploit the land and the people of Africa and take their raw resources such as diamonds for example and take them to Europe. There they would be able to make goods with them and sell them to people for a lot of money and this meant that they would grow vastly richer than they were before.
The way that the 1862 Homestead Act helped pull immigrants to the United States is by providing immigrants with inexpensive farmland.
Many immigrants were drawn to the fact that they could own their own farmland, and not have to pay a lot for them. This is why a lot of these immigrants moved to the US.
<span>Historiography turns the lens of analysis back on historians themselves and studies their methods and conclusions over time. and in the progress you learn interesting facts about history itself.</span>