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7-2 questions:
Why did cities grow so quickly in the late 1800's and early 1900's?
More immigrants started coming over to the United States
What problems did cities fact due to the rapid increase in population?
Housing, Transportation, Water, Crime, Fire, and Sanitation
What did some people do to try to help the bad situation in the cities?
They used the settlement house movement
Understood what the chapter was saying.
**Urban Opportunities**
-cities are cheap
-steady jobs
-support traditions
**Why They Migrated**
-new technologies came out and less jobs were needed
-escape racial violence
-economic hardship
-political oppression
**Urbanization Problems**
-housing
-transportation
-water
-crime
-fire
-sanitation
Housing-either buy a house on the outskirts of town or rent cramped rooms in a boarding house. After working-class families left the city, immigants over took the old housing.
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