People who sought a better life were lured in by this concept, however many people were made desperate as exaggeration was common; rumours flooded many parts of Europe. For example, some people were told that the streets, in the USA were ‘paved with gold’, however when many people arrived to America, they found that this was not the case, and in fact that many unskilled immigrants were made to do hard laboured work which was dangerous and hazardous in many cases. Although exaggeration was common, many immigrants did find a better life as they were free to practise their religion, which links back to the persecution in their own countries and they found good jobs for example, farmers earned more in the USA than they would have in Europe, and many unskilled immigrants worked in the bigger cities, doing various jobs for a decent amount. This meant that people immigrated to the USA, so that they too could earn more and escape the lack of opportunity from where they came from which leads us to the next reason that they immigrated to the USA.
