Urbanization

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?
After the huge technology outburst in the 19th century, many laborers were not needed in jobs because machines, who worked much more efficiently and faster, could now take over their jobs. They weren't needed so most laborers moved to cities. A number of Americans decided to move from the countries to the cities because cities were the most cheapest and most convenient places for immigrants to live; offering unskilled workers jobs in mills and factories.

3. What were the housing problems that many poor city dwellers faced?
Poor city dwellers didn't have any money to afford a roomy apartment for their family. They had to live in a single blocked room, with little or no furniture, and the rooms were often musky, dirty, and not one bit sanitary. The rooms were about the size of a walk in closet now a days. But this is all that they could afford. These "homes" were knows as tenements, meaning overcrowded and unsanitary.