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The us congress passage of the Homestead act in 1862 can be considered a “pull” facter that caused people to migrate to the us.

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User Quesofat
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It is True! Because The Homestead Act granted 160 acres of untouched land to the immigrants coming to the U.S. so they could farm and grow crops to ship to the bigger cities. If they showed up with $10 they would get 160 acres of land in the west.

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