Population Growth In American Cities In The Late 19th Century

With the growth of industry in the United States, the population of cities began to grow substantially (Tovanche Lecture). They started providing job opportunities in factories, offices, and other places as well. The cities became the main center of wealth and also poverty. A huge class of the impoverished lived in slums. Some even lived underground in the sewers, and a huge percentage of the poor came from newly arrived immigrants who were coming to America in large numbers from poor

In the 19th century the market revolution, was the byproduct of those striving to acquire the American dream. Advancements in technology prompted better industrial machinery, and factories were no longer

During the 1880s, a dramatic transformation in the patterns of immigration occurred and continued decades after. There were many new immigrants coming from all over the world, but United States was the most popular place for immigrants (Industrialization, 10). As a result, in the late 19th century, the United States witnessed great urban growth. This period is usually known was the “Age of the Cities”. There are several reasons account for that growth, most of which relate to scientific discoveries and technological advances.

Industrialization changed the lives of the people of this nation. By the late nineteenth century, with advances in technology, communication, and transportation, a new type of industrialization was formed, a global one.

The United States grew at a dramatic rate between the years 1880 and 1900, within the cities. U.S. cities grew by approximately 15 million people in the two decades before 1900. Many historians claim that most of the population growth was due to the expansion of industry. It is also believed that the majority of the population explosion was immigrants that were arriving from all over the world. A good amount of people from the rural areas of America also moved to the cities during this period in the search of work. Between 1880 and 1890, it is suggested that almost 40 percent of the townships in the United States lost population because of migration.

In addition to this major shift from rural to urban areas, a new wave of immigration increased America’s population significantly, especially in major cities. Immigrants came from war-torn regions of southern and eastern Europe, such as Italy, Greece, Poland, Russia, Croatia. This new group of immigrants

As America was booming from government policies and new technology, population changes also took effect to contribute to the rise of industry. Population was steadily rising due to immigration, migration, and improved conditions of living. Millions of European and Asian immigrants came to America in search of a more promising and successful life. These immigrants created a growing work force that big industries took advantage of by using the minimally paid workers to help produce more for their companies. Along with westward migration in America, “In the post-civil war period, cities swelled in population as a twin migration of immigrants and rural Americans flocked to the glittering urban environment” (Riis 320). This urbanization solidified the transition of the nation from an agricultural economy to an industrial one. Also in the 19th century, population was at a high compared the past because of improvements in health care, a higher reproduction rate and a better standard of living. These population changes provided America with a large, growing consumer economy that allowed industry and business to thrive.

The process of manufacturing all the natural resources that were brought by the railroads from the west was to be done by immigrants that would accept cheap labor, this process was called industrialization. Companies arise to the world of society, many of those companies own factories that manufactured and made useful natural resources. Also technology starts to play an important role in American life and on the future meaning that technological companies surged. All this manufacturing made by the factories that were owned by the companies promoted a general advancement.

America had a huge industrial revolution in the late 1800”s. Many changes happened to our great nation, which factored into this. The evidence clearly shows that advancements in new technology, a large wave of immigrants into our country and new views of our government, helped to promote America’s huge industrial growth from the period of 1860-1900.

As a larger number of immigrants began to move to the United States from eastern and southern Europe, cities began to increase. Due to these patterns of global migration, between 1870 and 1900, cities increased by at least eleven million people from these immigrants (p.507). While the idea of a growing city benefits big businesses in hiring low-waged workers, this opportunity for work in large industries opened the flood-gates for multiple waves of immigrants. The first wave, those known as the skilled workers “…criticized the newcomers. One Irish worker complained, ‘There should be a law…to keep all the Italians from comin’ in and takin’ the bread out of the mouth of honest people’” (American

1. The American city was changed drastically in the first half of the 20th century with the beginnings of the industrial revolution and the ongoing flow of foreigners into an already crowded United States.

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 (551). 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

The people that lived in the cities were only two cities that claimed population of over a million people were London and Paris. By the turn of the 20th century, New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia in the United States along with Berlin, Tokyo, St. Petersburg and Moscow, Buenos Aires, and Osaka had reached or were fast approaching that mark. Also, massive metropolitan areas around the world towns and cities of all different sizes, from industrial cities to trading centers and county seats also expanded. The conditions were as followed New York became the first American city to reach a million inhabitants, followed by Chicago, and Philadelphia in 1890. Towns and cities attracted both rich and poor seeking more opportunity's. Overpopulation

The rate of population growth increase in the late 1800s was due to better hygiene and the discovery of the germ theory. Most doctors didn’t agree with this theory so it wasn’t until 1870 that,”…French chemist Louis Pasteur clearly show the link between microbes and disease,” (249). He also discovered how to pasteurize milk to kill harmful microbes. Another factor to the population increase was due to the fact of understanding diseases and how they are caused. “In the 1880s, the German doctor Robert Koch identified the bacteria that tuberculosis, a respiratory disease that claimed about 30 million human lives in the 1800s,” (249). This helped find a cure for tuberculosis and find out where other diseases came from. “By 1914, yellow fever and

Although the amount of people living in cities had vastly increased since the late 18th century, the representation for cities in state legislature and congress did not increase to reflect this change in dynamic. By 1870, 44% of New York City’s population was made up of immigrants, while San Francisco’s was at 49% (Donovan). With this increase in population came the need for an increase in social