Title: How did industrialization, immigration, and urbanization affect the US from the period 1870-1900? | Yahoo Answers
Headings: How did industrialization, immigration, and urbanization affect the US from the period 1870-1900?
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How did industrialization, immigration, and urbanization affect the US from the period 1870-1900?
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Content: Working in a factory or an office is completely different from working a farm. Immigration - with all these new factory jobs being created the need for cheap almost expendable labor was required. Industries knew this and encouraged immigration; immigrants knew this and flocked to America to work the factories for a decent wage (at least to them). Native-born Americans didn't like this - immigrants took their jobs, and at lower wages! Urbanization - in the reverse of farming communities, great cities arose surrounded by factories and offices. The jobs were there, but the pollution spewed by industry and the low wages paid was not much of an improvement over dirt-poor farming. On the whole, the switch from an agrarian society (farming) to an industrial society (big factories in big cities) played havoc with American life. ...Show more
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1 decade ago
Your not kidding in depth. The time in question was the great industrial revolution with railroads having just crossed the country, Andrew Carnegie putting together US Steel, J.P. Morgan putting together National Steel, Rockefeller with Standard Oil Co. (before the courts made him split it up), and President Teddy Roosevelt building the battleships of the 'Great White Way'.