"Not the looking forward made me go, but the looking backward made me search a new life and struggle a hard battle... [I]t is hard still now to
bear the homesickness, loneliness, among strange people not knowing the language doing hard (work) without a minute of joy. But when I look
back into my childhood... always under a terrible fear... I think that there is not anything harder."--young Russian Jewish woman
Based on this statement, what most likely motivated this immigrant to come to the United States?

The young Russian woman is speaking about missing her homeland and being lonely. She can't speak the language and doesn't have a good job since she says "doing hard work without a minute of joy."

However, she then speaks about looking back at her childhood and wanting to find a new life and had a terrible fear of her childhood. She most likely did not want her own children to live like this. She wanted to live somewhere that she could be free to practice her beliefs.

Religious persecution was her push factor. Many times, people of other religions persecute anyone who beleives differently and doesn't follow their ways. They are treated badly when in town, scared to attend schools, church, or any town events. People would be killed for their religious beliefs in many countries. The United States has many different religions that people freely join and practice without being harmed or persecuted.

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