WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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the availability of factory jobs
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the desire to live near the coast
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the availability of agricultural jobs
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the entertainment opportunities available there
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cities were the cheapest places to live and offered unskilled laborers steady jobs. People had a hard time finding work so they settled into the cities since they could not afford to move.
Detailed explanation-2: -While the agricultural, slave-based Southern economy was devastated by the war, the Northern economy benefited from development in many of its industries, including textile and iron production. The war also stimulated the growth of railroads, improving transportation infrastructure.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Civil War confirmed the single political entity of the United States, led to freedom for more than four million enslaved Americans, established a more powerful and centralized federal government, and laid the foundation for America’s emergence as a world power in the 20th century.
Detailed explanation-4: -Explanation: The North had many more factories than the South. This allowed the North to keep its army well supplied at the start of the Civil War and during its duration.
Detailed explanation-5: -Reconstruction refers to the period immediately after the Civil War from 1865 to 1877 when several United States administrations sought to reconstruct society in the former Confederate states in particular by establishing and protecting the legal rights of the newly freed black population.