USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Explanation: Immigrants were attracted by America because they thought it was a land of plenty where they could find a better future. Jobs were many in cities because of industrialization. It explains why they lived in cities.

Detailed explanation-2: -Many of the nation’s new immigrants settled in the cities in the early 1900s. They came there to find jobs in the cities’ growing factories and businesses. Immigrants settled mainly in cities in the Northeast and Midwest. The result was rapid urbanization, or growth of cities, in those regions.

Detailed explanation-3: -Most immigrants settled in industrial cities because they lacked the capital to buy farmland and lacked the education to establish themselves in professions, so they settled in industrial cities, where most of them took unskilled jobs.

Detailed explanation-4: -Unlike earlier immigrants, who mainly came from northern and western Europe, the “new immigrants” came largely from southern and eastern Europe. Largely Catholic and Jewish in religion, the new immigrants came from the Balkans, Italy, Poland, and Russia.

Detailed explanation-5: -What was the experience of most of the “new immigrants” who arrived in the United States from southern and eastern Europe in the late 1800s and early 1900s? They lived in urban areas and most held low paying jobs. They obtained free land in the West and became farmers.