WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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the development of the skyscraper.
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the availability of industrial jobs.
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the compact nature of those large communities.
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the advent of new housing structures known as dumbbell tenements.
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the promise of high-quality education.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What was the most important factor that drew rural people off farms and into the big cities during the period 1865-1900? The availability of industrial jobs. They made substantial efforts to convert Americans to Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, or Judaism.
Detailed explanation-2: -But if many factors pushed people away from their home countries, by far the most important factor drawing immigrants was economics. Immigrants came to the United States looking for work. Industrial capitalism was the most important factor that drew immigrants to the United States between 1880 and 1920.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the decades following the Civil War, the United States emerged as an industrial giant. Old industries expanded and many new ones, including petroleum refining, steel manufacturing, and electrical power, emerged.