USA HISTORY

WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900

IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
How did many large cities in the late 1800s deal with the growing problem of crime?
A
City planners installed emergency call boxes on street corners
B
City officials instituted strict curfews
C
Many professional, uniformed police officers were put on patrol
D
Police attempted to pit street gangs against each other.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -How did many large cities in the late 1800’s deal with the growing problem of crime? Many professional, uniformed, police officers patrolled neighborhoods.

Detailed explanation-2: -Because the birth rate in the United States declined in the late nineteenth century, urban growth reflected an internal migration of Americans from farms and small towns to the larger cities and the overseas migration that brought millions of people to U.S. shores. The new immigration.

Detailed explanation-3: -What was one advantage of urbanization for poor workers who migrated to cities in the late nineteenth century? They earned wages that enabled them to have a higher standard of living.

Detailed explanation-4: -In Miami blacks were called patrolmen while white officers were designated as policemen. In the late 1800s, the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was ruled unconstitutional, and later the Supreme Court upheld “separate but equal” laws.

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