That might a lot to do with the highly available and relatively untapped resources and cheap land. Britain was more industrialized and progressing faster than t

That might a lot to do with the highly available and relatively untapped resources and cheap land. Britain was more industrialized and progressing faster than the US at the time, but only received a fraction of the amount of immigration, but it was also highly settled with much more expensive land and most resources already claimed/owned and being tapped to fuel their industrialization.