Early American Urbanization
Between 1846 and 1932 emigration numbers increased greatly. There were more than 50 million Europeans that left their continent to pursue better lives in other countries. Some of these countries included the United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Brazil or Argentina. All of which offered less expensive land and better wages than what they were used to.
This, however, is not the only cause of European emigration. European agriculture took a hit in the last twenty-five years of the 19th century. Ireland especially began to have extreme difficulties with farming. In 1845 a mysterious fungus struck the potato fields, destroying half of all the crops. The Irish were able to recover from this but in 1847 the fungus struck the potato fields again. They were not able to recover from this blight as they had two years prior and eventually it lead to The Great Hunger. "Bad weather and foreign competition created problems for European farmers......

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