Immigrants had tough time settling into the Ameircan ways of urbinization. In the 19th and 20th centuries it was not easy to make a living farming because there were natural and economic disasters that had hit farmers hard in Europe and the United States. This called for a lot of promising jobs in the industrial world of the United states. Along with the promising jobs came the promising challenges.

 

Ameircan Urbinization

The early United States was predominately rural. According to the 1790 census, 95 percent of the population lived in the countryside. The 5 percent of Americans living in urban areas (places with more than 2,500 persons) lived mostly in small villages. Only Philadelphia, New York, and Boston had more than 15,000 inhabitants. The South was almost completely rural. After 1830 the urban areas of the country grew more rapidly than the rural areas. By 1890 industrialization had produced substantial growth in cities, and 35 percent of Americans lived in urban areas, mostly in the northern half of the United States. The South remained rural, except for New Orleans and a few smaller cities. The number of Americans living in cities did not surpass the number in rural areas until 1920. By the 1990s three out of four Americans lived in an urban setting, and since World War II the southern half of the country has become increasingly urbanized, particularly in Texas, Arizona, and the states along the eastern seaboard.

Immigrants in the Cities

Most immigrants that came to the United Stated in the 19th century went to the cities because they were the cheapest and most convinient places to live even though they still werent very clean. Many immigants didnt know how to speak english so the Ameircanization movement was started which was a program which immigrant how to speak english, some of the history cooking and etiquette. Even though these programs helped many immigants still wanted to practice their own customs and religions so they moved into their own neighborhoods but soon became overcrowded.

Migration From Country to City

As technology improved, farms merged because inventions were being made so it ment for less farms. Also because of inventions jobs were being taken by the machines, which also ment for less laborers. Most of these laborers were black making it that much harder to find jobs because of racial tensions. Farmers had to adjust to the life in the city because in the cities it was noisy and they had to adjust to working with machines.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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