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: 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'. With all this industry being built there was a huge need for labor thus the immigration drives of the period. Millions of Europeans came to the US for work and to get out from under oppressive political regimes at home. The new immigrants became the labor for the new mills and all the services needed to keep them running and housing them led to the urban tenement problems. This in turn led to political unrest in the urban neighborhoods and helped the corrupt political machines gain control of the cities. The hard working conditions lead to the rise of unions and the battle for recognition. (