Title: How did industrialization, immigration, and urbanization affect the US from the period 1870-1900? | Yahoo Answers
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How did industrialization, immigration, and urbanization affect the US from the period 1870-1900?
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Big question! Industrialization - the United States was primarily a farming country up to the Industrial Revolution. With industrialization came a total switch in the types of jobs people performed. 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!