THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
AMERICAN INDUSTRIALIZATION FACTORY SYSTEM AND MARKET REVOLUTION
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most were used to city life
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there weren’t that many farms left in the US
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the growing industries were located in cities
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the government encouraged it.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Many of the nation’s new immigrants settled in the cities in the early 1900s. They came there to find jobs in the cities’ growing factories and businesses. Immigrants settled mainly in cities in the Northeast and Midwest. The result was rapid urbanization, or growth of cities, in those regions.
Detailed explanation-2: -Most of the immigrants chose to settle in American cities, where jobs were located. As a result, the cities became ever more crowded. In addition, city services often failed to keep up with the flow of newcomers.
Detailed explanation-3: -Immigrants, as well as manufacturing enterprises, were concentrated in the rapidly growing cities of the Northeast and Midwest during the age of industrialization (Gibson and Jung 2006: 72).
Detailed explanation-4: -During the 1870s and 1880s, the vast majority of these people were from Germany, Ireland, and England-the principal sources of immigration before the Civil War.