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.

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.

The causes of the immigration of Southern and Eastern Europeans, Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese to America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was:
-wanted to escape difficult conditions (ex. famine, land shortages)
-to earn money then return back to their homelands (birds of passage)
-overall to have a better life
-Europeans left to escape religious persecution and wanted independent lives.
-Chinese and Japanese wanted to make more money after the discovery of gold also now Hawaii was able to recruit Japanese
-West indians immigrated to find work and flee from political turmoil.

2. Describe the journey immigrants endured and their experiences at United States immigration stations.
The journey for immigrants was long and arduous to the United States. To save money, many traveled on the cheapest steam ships possible. But because of this, it was extremely hard to breath, had to sleep in louse infected bunks, and share toilets with many others. All of these awful conditions led to diseases spreading quickly throughout the ships, and sadly many immigrants died before they even made their destination. They had to go through these conditions for a week- three weeks.