Urbanzation.

1. What is Urbanization?
The rapid growth of cities, mostly in the northeast or midwest.

2. For what reasons did a number of Americans move from the country to the cities?
In 1990s to find jobs in factories.(Imigrants), on farms machines replaced people so farmers went to the cities to find jobs, mostly african americans. mostley for the jobs that were easy to find in this time period, even if it ment low wages( it could be better than they were getting before.)


3. What were the housing problems that many poor city dwellers faced?
Cities population grew fast, so there was little room to live, plus there was a shortage in houseing. lived in a small amount of space with lots of people, tenatments had lots of families in them that were diry. Rohouse was a single fam house that shared walls with other houses.
lots of fires because of the lack of water and the trash in the streets.