WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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migrant laborers in mining towns
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inner-city political machines
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immigrants in urban areas
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labor union leaders
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Detailed explanation-1: -The early 1900s group is best characterized by this list is immigrants in urban areas.
Detailed explanation-2: -Many immigrants to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries flocked into communities where most of the people came from the same country and spoke the same language. This allowed these groups to maintain their cultural traditions.
Detailed explanation-3: -Between 1900 and 1915, more than 15 million immigrants arrived in the United States. That was about equal to the number of immigrants who had arrived in the previous 40 years combined.
Detailed explanation-4: -Eleven million people migrated from rural to urban areas between 1870 and 1920, and a majority of the twenty-five million immigrants who came to the United States in these same years moved into the nation’s cities. By 1920, more Americans lived in cities than in rural areas for the first time in US history.
Detailed explanation-5: -In the late 1800s, people in many parts of the world decided to leave their homes and immigrate to the United States. Fleeing crop failure, land and job shortages, rising taxes, and famine, many came to the U. S. because it was perceived as the land of economic opportunity.