Industrialization And Urbanization In The United States

Before the Industrial revolution people used to live in remote areas where living was cheap and affordable. Due to less roads and inconvenient transportation system most of the people were farmers and used to grow their own food. As a result of Industrialization and urbanization, families got themselves free from their traditional ties to the land and migrated to cities for a better life. Railroad brought together remote parts of the country. A huge number of immigrants came to America in waves from Europe, Africa and Asia and a large number of people from rural areas of America also moved to urban areas, which created more demand of consumer goods. This resulted in building new factories and created a demand for new lands and resources. Cities offered large number of cheap labor for the factories. As more plants were built so more and more people moved to cities. There was an explosion of urban growth, dozens of new cities were emerged and in fact, in between 1850 t0 1900 map of the United States changed dramatically. It was indeed the result of nonstop immigrants and invention of railroads in the United
Women became a large part of American work force because in addition to traditional household jobs they filled jobs created by recent inventions. All doctors, skilled workers, lawyers and teachers were part of this middle class. Whereas, poor and unskilled workers belonged to a largest group of society which; lived in slums and poor neighborhood. Though living conditions were better in company towns but they were dependent on employer from food to everything. These poor workers had no money or time for their recreation or to go to theaters or museum. The wealthy entrepreneurs were a small segment of the urban society they lived in cities and have their estates outside too. They enjoyed the greatest benefits of city