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.

Immigration

1. Describe the causes of the immigration of Southern and Eastern Europeans, Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese to America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
2. Describe the journey immigrants endured and their experiences at United States immigration stations.

1.) They left their homeland because jobs were scarse.the mexicans came because after the mexican war they needed to escape termoil, others came becasue america took over some territory. Some came to escape diffcult conditions, like lack of food, diesaes, religon, politics etc. most were "Lured" here because they knew they could have a better life.

2.) The immigrates traveled from their homeland by steamships. On these steamships the immigrants they shared a small space, because of this the dieseas spread rapidly! When they arrived in america of the east coast they had to go through Ellis Island. At Ellis Island they were put through tests, they needed to be dieseas free, and make the legal requriment.
The West coast people went through Angle Island. Here the selections and tests were much harder because Americans were prejudice against them.