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3b Urbanization and Immigration

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Pittsburgsteel
Chicagomeatpacking
New England statestextiles
Detroitautomobiles
Place the Nez Perce were trying to escape toCanada
"My heart is sad...I will fight no more forever"Cheif Joseph
Rapid growth of industry led toovercrowded immigrant neighborhoods
Crowded lving conditions in cities led toepidemics of typhoid, smallpox and tuberculosis
Ghettos were createdwhen landlords packed as many people as possible into tenements
In the late 1800s cities hadbad water, garbage in the streets, frequent fires
After the Civil War a majority og the immigrants came fromsouthern and eastern Europe
Settlement houses such as the Hull Househelped immigrants adjust to living in America
The battle between the Sioux Indians and the U.S. government was calledBattle of Lttle Big Horn
The majority of immigrants coming to America chose to live incity neighborhoods with others from the same ethnic group
The greatest threat to the Plains Indians way of life was thethe killing and near extinction of buffalo
Thomas Edisoninvented electric lightbulb
One of the ways the U.S. government dealth with the Indian problem was to set aside land for them calledreservations
As more and more immigrants came to America, some worried the immigrantswould take their jobs
Many people in rural areas moved to the city becausemachinery reduced the need for farm labor
Jobs in the cities attractedthousands of immigrants to America
Alexander Graham Belltelephone
These people endured a lot of immigration in the mid to late 1800sChinese and Irish
In 1882, the U.S. passed a law stopping immigration fromChina
Reasons immigrants came to AmericaBetter life, religious freedom, adventure, escape from oppressive governments
The late 1800s saw the beginning of migration (moving) fromrural to urban areas
As homesteaders, miners and the railroads pushed west,Indians were pushed off their land and their way of life ended


7th grade U.S. History teacher
North Fork Middle School
Quicksburg, VA

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