WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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They became enslaved if they moved to the south.
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They were separated from their families because they could not afford to live together.
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They received low wages, labored in hazardous working conditions, and lived in overcrowded areas.
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They were unable to find other people from their homelands because of the small number of immigrants.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Often stereotyped and discriminated against, many immigrants suffered verbal and physical abuse because they were “different.” While large-scale immigration created many social tensions, it also produced a new vitality in the cities and states in which the immigrants settled.
Detailed explanation-2: -What difficulties did new immigrants face in America? Immigrants had few jobs, terrible living conditions, poor working conditions, forced assimilation, nativism (discrimination), anti-Aisan sentiment. Why did cities in the United States grow rapidly in the decades following the civil war?
Detailed explanation-3: -Immigrants were generally more willing to accept lower wages and inferior working conditions than native born workers (Zolberg 2006: 69). Great efficiencies in production led to higher profits that could be reinvested in new technology, which led to even more production and eventually higher wages for workers.