Urbanization, Industrialization, & Population Growth

Changes that occurred in the U.S. because of our shift to an industrialized nation in the late 19^th century:

• Monopolies
• Labor Unions Organized
• Child Labor
• Women in the Workforce
• Mass production of goods (the assembly line)
• Advertising industry = you need this product
• Trusts dominated key industries
• Rapid introduction of new inventions/ideas
• Growth of cities/urbanization
• More steel production = bigger buildings / railroads / etc

Urbanization (the growth of cities) occurred due to the arrival of industries and people.

Changes that occurred in the U.S. due to urbanization in the late 19^th century:

• Public Education
• Goods bought at markets
• Indoor lighting
• Refrigerated railroad cars
• Telephone
• Overcrowding
• Tenements / slums / crime
• Fewer people living in the country / farming

Changes that occurred in the U.S. due to the population growth in the late 19^th century:

• Immigration
• Fear of foreigners
• Native American relocation
• More people to work and to buy products
• Cities grew
• More diversity

Cites

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New York City, Tenement Life

The Streetcar

Urbanization of America

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