Question

Most of the first portion of our class explored the changes brought about by massive industrialization, urbanization, and immigration during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Which TWO of these three do you believe are the most important for understanding American history and why

Answer 1

• According to me,industralization and urbanization were major influences in American history and this actually lead to increase immigrants into hthe country.An outburst in growth of America’s big city population, places of 100,000 people or more jumped from about 6 million to 14 million between 1880 and 1900, cities had become a world of newcomers.
• America evolved into a land of factories, corporate enterprise, and industrial worker and, the surge in immigration supplied their workers. In the latter half of the 19th century, continued industrialization and urbanization sparked an increasing demand for a larger and cheaper labor force.
• The country's transformation from a rural agricultural society into an urban industrial nation attracted immigrants worldwide. As free land and free labor disappeared and as capitalists dominated the economy, dramatic social, political, and economic tensions were created.
• The influx of immigrants created availability for cheap labor, which in turn led to corrupt business practices, urban political machines, and "white slavery". To curtail these "evils" present in society, progressivism was developed. The goals of progressivism were simple: to decrease poverty levels, to establish local charities, to fight for social justice, and to bring back good government practices.
• Between 1870 and 1890, in just 20 years, the population increased from 40 million to 60 million.Immigrants to the United States, willing to do anything to set a foothold in the nation, accepted cheap labor as employment.
• Large corporations used this to their advantage. Profit oriented leaders did little to make suitable working conditions.
• With the startling growth of immigration, in what seemed like overnight, immigrants were met with hostility as they were the target of religious differences as well as labor unrest, the promoted sentiment was termed, nativism.
• As the continuation of industrialization and urbanization sparked an increasing demand for a larger and cheaper labor force; an influx in immigrants from all over Europe, migrated in pursuit of higher wages. As the industrial revolution progressed, the country evolved from a rural agricultural society into an urban industrial nation. Capitalists now dominated the economy, sparking dramatic social, political, and economic tensions for immigrants.