Urbanization

1. What is Urbanization?
Urbanization is the growth of cities, for example the Northeast and Midwest regions had an increase in urbanization because of the U.S.'s growing industrial strength.

2. For what reasons did a number of Americans move from the country to the cities?
Americans moved from the country to the city in need of jobs because of all the inventions that made farming easier, and not in need of as many laborers. The laborers moved top the cities in seek of work. African Americans also moved to cities to escape racial violence, economic hardship and political oppression.


3. What were the housing problems that many poor city dwellers faced?
Poor city dwellers lived in tenements that were over crowded and very unsanitary. The streets were also very unsanitary with manure, trash, sewage and dead animals cluttering the roads. Cities also had high crime rates, a small public water supply and since the tenements were made of would the cities were giant fire hazards.

immigration, cities

1. In the late nineteenth century many immigrants started coming over to America. Europenas came to America trying to avoid religious persecution or because of the population growth. The population was increasing so much that it was hard to find good land for farming. Also people came to America because of the reforms and revolts and sought independence in America. The Chinese were very interested in the Gold rush in California and immigrated to Western America. Japanese immigrated to America because Hawaian planters recruited them and the Japanese heard of the high wages in America.

2.Europeans had to go through Ellis Island to be admitted into the United States, whereas people in the West went through Angel Island. They had to be inspected by a doctor to see if they were healthy and wouldn't spread disease into the country. They also had to prove that they could work in the country and that they weren't criminals. Some of the tests took 5 hours and sometimes the people had to stay over night to wait for their inspection. There were also interpreters to translate for them and sometimes the interpreters helped the people because they didn't like watching people be deported. Only about 2% failed the tests and were sent back home.