WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Politicians in major cities demanded fair working conditions for all laborers
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The upper-middle class was prosperous and able to afford city dwellings
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Many new immigrants were unable to find work on Midwestern farms
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Many factory jobs were located in cities near transportation routes
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Industrial expansion and population growth radically changed the face of the nation’s cities. Noise, traffic jams, slums, air pollution, and sanitation and health problems became commonplace. Mass transit, in the form of trolleys, cable cars, and subways, was built, and skyscrapers began to dominate city skylines.
Detailed explanation-3: -Why did many working class people remain in cities even though suburbs with better living conditions were available? It was difficult to get from the suburbs to the city in time for work. They preferred to continue living in the same place. Their employers required that they live close to where they worked.
Detailed explanation-4: -Gilded Age, period of gross materialism and blatant political corruption in U.S. history during the 1870s that gave rise to important novels of social and political criticism. The period takes its name from the earliest of these, The Gilded Age (1873), written by Mark Twain in collaboration with Charles Dudley Warner.