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By the late 1840s, a surge in immigration led to an increased population to work in the factories of the North. An immigrant is a person who enters a new country in order to settle there. In the 1840s and 1850s, about 4 million immigrants arrived in the United States. They were attracted, in large part, by the opportunities for farming the land or working in the cities. Among them were immigrants from Britain who came to earn higher wages. There was a greater demand in the United States for skilled machinists, carpenters, and miners.

Based on the excerpt above and your knowledge, give an example of immigration on the lines below:

An example of immigration in the 1840s and 1850s is a British person coming to the United States to work as a machinist in a factory.