Emigration 1900 - Virtual Tour of Dutch History (sitios de interés)
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| The wave of Dutch emigration between 1847 and 1857 may be attributed to the failures of three consecutive potato and rye harvests in the mid-1840s. Again, the great agricultural crises of the 1880s and 1890s and the agricultural restructuring they entailed is mirrored in the wave of emigration that occurred between 1880 and 1893: common to all Dutch migrants was a need for land. A period of suppression by the Dutch State in the 19th century led many to flee to North America. The American domestic economy between 1840 and 1900 was of even greater importance: prospective Dutch emigrants responded directly to American conditions. â??Land boomsâ?? stimulated the immigration of the Dutch, while economic depression discouraged migration Emmigration |  |