THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
AMERICAN INDUSTRIALIZATION FACTORY SYSTEM AND MARKET REVOLUTION
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movement from urban areas to rural areas
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large number of American immigrants to Europe
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movement from rural areas to urban areas
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decreased number of immigrants to the United States
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Detailed explanation-1: -Immigration rates peaked during the early decades of the 19th century, when the country experienced much economic prosperity. By the end of the 19th century, immigration had slowed, but continued to be significant in that new peoples from places such as China, Lebanon, and Eastern Europe, had begun to arrive.
Detailed explanation-2: -Counterurbanization, or deurbanization, is a demographic and social process whereby people move from urban areas to rural areas. It is, like suburbanization, inversely related to urbanization. It first occurred as a reaction to inner-city deprivation.
Detailed explanation-3: -In rural areas, less employment opportunities, low wages, drought, lack of basic amenities, landlessness, social factors act as push factors and more employment opportunities, higher income, better wages, better facilities activities as pull factors towards the rural to urban migration.
Detailed explanation-4: -Urbanization is the process of a population shift from rural areas to cities. During the last century, global populations have urbanized rapidly: 13% of people lived in urban environments in the year 1900.