Why is America more prosperous and powerful than Europe, Templar?

There is an old saying in China called "focus on getting rich", which is the best way to explain the rise of the United States.

When the United States was founded, there were only 4 million people. Therefore, the vast majority of population growth in the United States depends on foreign immigrants. At that time, Europe had just finished the Napoleonic era, and the restoration of monarchy and autocratic rule overwhelmed the people, but the people who longed for peace had no resistance. So they decided to run and find free space in the new world.

Coupled with the great famine in Ireland and the gold rush in North America, the wave of immigration is even higher. 1864, Lincoln passed the Immigration Encouragement Act, which made accepting immigrants an important task. By 1920, the population of the United States has reached 1 100 million, leaving all western European countries behind. Immigrants have brought great productivity to the United States, which enabled the United States to turn over successfully in the second industrial revolution and its output value jumped to the top in the world.

The other is the unique geographical conditions of the United States. The gold mines in the west, the great plains in the middle, and a large number of oil, coal and iron ore resources discovered later all injected fresh blood into the development of the United States. Several clever diplomatic games have embezzled a large number of colonial forces, and the only American-Mexican war that used force won 2.3 million square kilometers of land.

When time entered the 20th century, when Kaiser Wilhelm II boasted to his British grandmother Queen Victoria that "I am a person who cares about my country", I didn't know it was pot calling the kettle black. The United States has well practiced Mencius' theory of "raising people to live and mourning people to die". At this time, European countries have no power to resist American imperialism alone.