Examples of urbanization in the following topics:
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- The industrialization of America led to incredible population growth in urban centers; by 1900, 40 percent of Americans lived in cities.
- The industrialization of the late nineteenth century brought on rapid urbanization.
- Factory jobs were the only jobs some immigrants could get, and as more came to the cities to work, the larger the urbanization process became.
- Not only did urbanization cause cities to grow in population, but it also caused buildings to grow higher and larger.
- The period between 1865 and 1920 was marked by the increasing concentration of people, political power, and economic activity in urban areas.
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- Industrialization and urbanization reinforced each other and urban areas became increasingly congested.
- Diseases like cholera, dysentery, and typhoid fever struck urban areas with increasing frequency as a result of unsanitary living conditions.
- Industrialization and urbanization reinforced each other and urban areas became increasingly congested.
- With industrialization came urbanization.
- Not only did urbanization cause cities to grow in population, it also caused cities to grow in building size.
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- During the Industrial Revolution, environmental pollution increased with the use of new sources of fuel, the development of large factories, and the rise of unsanitary urban centers.
- During the Industrial Revolution, environmental pollution in the United States increased with the emergence of new sources of fuel, large factories, and sprawling urban centers.
- Some effects were self-evident to attentive observers, however, and the rise of industrialization and urbanization did inspire a new appreciation for the natural world among some.
- Thoreau's writings celebrated nature and a simple life and provided a critique of urban and industrial values.
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- In the early 1800s, the ports of Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New York were sites of rapid urban development.
- This shift would not last, however, and future administrations prioritized the growth of urban industry.
- The membership of political parties in the Second Party System was reflective of urbanization and wealth.
- Urban centers became characterized by working-class families and high rates of poverty.
- Describe the political, cultural, and economic landscape of the four key urban centers of nineteenth-century America
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- Industrialization resulted in the urbanization of America, with immigration fueling the growth.
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- It was an intellectual response to the Industrial Revolution and the problems associated with urbanization.
- Classical liberals also saw poor urban conditions as inevitable, and therefore opposed any income or wealth redistribution.
- Public works included a stable currency; standard weights and measures; support of roads, canals, harbors, and railways; and postal and other communications services that facilitated urban and industrial development.
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- Fredericksburg was one of the most one-sided battles and the first
instance of urban combat during the American Civil War.
- When the Union Army was finally able to build its bridges and cross under fire, urban combat began, and a battle raged in the city December 11–12.
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- By the end of the Second Great Migration, usually considered to have occurred between 1940 and 1970, African Americans had become an urbanized population.
- The African-American Great Migration created the first large, urban black communities in the North.
- African American migrants were often resented by the urban European American working class, often recent immigrants themselves, because African Americans migrated in large numbers over a short period of time.
- Stereotypes ascribed to black people during this period and ensuing generations were often derived from African American migrants' rural cultural traditions, which were maintained in stark contrast to the urban environments in which they resided.
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- Early efforts in urban reform were driven by poor conditions exposed by tragedies such as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
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- Working for a wage, and eventually a salary, became part of urban life.
- As industrialization occurred and families shifted from rural agricultural settings to urban ones, the number of children per household also declined.
- Children became less of an economic benefit and more of a cost: Urban life necessitated educating children, which was costly.
- During the 1910s and 1920s, women delayed childbirth for economic opportunities that were present in urban areas.