Urbanzation

1. What is Urbanization?
Urbanization is the growth of cities.

2. For what reasons did a number of Americans move from the country to the cities?
Americans moved from the rural areas to the cities for a few reasons. First with farming inventions like the McCormick reaper and the steel plow less people were needed to make the same amount of product. So farms started to combine with one another. So less workers were needed which meant less jobs and people have to work to make money so they moved to the cities were their was always work because of the huge amount of mills and factories.

3. What were the housing problems that many poor city dwellers faced?
Since the houses or apartments were old they were really bad. Also there was not much garbage pick up so they dumped their garbage down the air shafts which attacted vermin like rats which fouled the air. Then they boarded up the air shafts which cut off their supply of air. Their water was poluted so it wasn't exactly safe. The sanitation was horrible because it wasn't properly cleaned up. Their was also a high chance of fire becasue of the amount of wooden buildings and that there was not much water to fight the fires with.