The statement below was made by a 19th-century immigrant to the United States. My family was lucky. We survived the pogrom in our village in Russia. The Tsarist government
acted in support of these anti-Jewish attacks. We had a cousin in Chicago who sent us enough
money to pay for our passage by steamship to America.
Based on this statement, why did her family immigrate to the United States?
Religious persecution forced them out of Russia.
O A drought in western Russia pushed them out of Russia.
O The discovery of gold in the Black Hills pulled them towards the United States.
The promise of jobs in the oil industry in Chicago pulled them towards the United States.