Instructions: Categorize each reason listed below on the chart below.

List of Reasons:

• Ireland’s potato crop failed

• “Poor law” taxed Ireland’s small farmers.

• New factories in Germany put people out of work.

• A freedom revolution in Germany failed.

• Few jobs existed for workers in China.

• People in some foreign nations were persecuted for their beliefs.

• People searched for adventure

• A rumor spread in Germany that America would stop immigration.