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.

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.

Europeans came to America in the late 19th and 20 centuries because of a few reasons. The first is religous persecution. An example of which is the Jews. They were being attacked by other Europeans. They also came for the number of jobs. The European popultaion had grown a lot so people were having a hard time finding jobs. The Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese came for a few reasons also. The Chinese came to be a part of the gold rush for easy money and they also came fore jobs. The Japanese came for the supposivly high paying jobs.

2. Describe the journey immigrants endured and their experiences at United States immigration stations.

The steamships most immigrants took were horrible. They had no room to live really. Tons and Tons of people were crowded into the ships to get to Ammerica. They had to sleep in bad blankets infested with louse. They had only a few tolliets. In these small spaces disease was rampant because they were so close together. The experience at the immigration stations like Ellis Island and Angel Island were hard. They were give a medical exam to make sure they were health and if they could work. If they couldn't they were sent back home. They were questioned to see if they had commited a crime and if they had money. If they did commit a crime or didn't have money they were sent away.