WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Irish made up the majority of immigrants in this period, particularly during the famine years of the 1840s and 1850s when they comprised more than 90 percent of the city’s foreign-born residents. Germans, Canadians, and those from England and Scotland came in smaller numbers.
Detailed explanation-2: -Immigrants settled mainly in cities in the Northeast and Midwest. The result was rapid urbanization, or growth of cities, in those regions. By 1910, immigrants made up more than half of the populations of 18 major American cities.
Detailed explanation-3: -First Wave, 1820-1880. The Irish predominated in this first mass wave of immigration, as Boston evolved from a bustling port town to a thriving industrial city.