Urbanization

Chapter 15-2

1. What is Urbanization?
Urbanization was the growth of cities, mostly in teh regions of the Northeast and Midwest.

2. For what reasons did a number of Americans move from the country to the cities?
Americans moved from the country to the cities because due to the rapid improvements in farming technology it meant that fewer workers were required to work the land. Rural workers had to move into cities to find whatever work they could.

3. What were the housing problems that many poor city dwellers faced?
Many poor city dwellers faced the problems of either choosing a house on the outskirts of town, where they could encounter transportation problems, or renting cramped rooms in a boarding house in the center of the city. New row houses were designed to pack people into the blocks, and when the working class families left the central city and the immigrants moved in they began to fit two or three families per house.