, nature was beautiful and life was easy. This report enticed
             thousands of Duden's countrymen-including well-educated aristocrats,
             Other Germans left for religious reasons. Several groups among the
             mid-nineteenth century German immigrants saw America as a safe haven for
             religious freedom. About ten thousand Jews came to the United States from
             Bavaria in 1839 to escape the social and economic restrictions placed on
             Jews. Soon Jews from other German states followed. Around 1840, a
             number of Lutherans came as a result of their oppositio
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