WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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Specialized industries were located in cities
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Factory work was located in rural areas
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Movement of Americans from rural to urban areas for job opportunities
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Immigration to America from other countries
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Detailed explanation-1: -The state’s population exploded from 380, 000 in 1860 to almost 3.5 million in 1920, largely due to swelling immigration from other parts of the United States as well as Latin America, Asia, and Europe.
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: -Owing most of their population growth to the expansion of industry, U.S. cities grew by about 15 million people in the two decades before 1900. Many of those who helped account for the population growth of cities were immigrants arriving from around the world.
Detailed explanation-4: -From 1880 to 1920, population growth was concentrated in cities-the urban fraction expanded from a little more than one quarter of the national population to more than one half (Carter et al. 2006: 1–105).