What Led People To American Urbanization During The Late 1800s And Early 1900's

During the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, American cities saw a rapid growth from international immigrants and urbanization from natives. There were many reasons that brought people to america, and drove them away from their homeland. The growth of population changed the ways cities operated, because the people were different, from their culture and point of origin. Freedom was a main pull factor the drove people to america, from Europe and Asia. A majority of the immigrants that came for Freedom were poor and oppressed people from Europe Asia and Latin America. Typically, a bold family member, usually a young single male with travel to America and settle and eventually right home and give the ok to travel to the free land. Once people got there, they settled with their own. They had the freedom to interact and worship with others from the homeland, in rich cultured neighborhoods. Another pull factor to America were the many job opportunities promoted in their homeland by many companies. Factories needed workers that
Religious and political persecution were one of the biggest push factors. The Russian Government and governments in Eastern Europe organized pogroms on Jews in their villages. The Ottoman Empire (occupying present-day Turkey) committed a form of genocide on the Armenians, killing over 1.5 millions. Many of the Armenians and Jews fled to America through Angel Island in San Francisco, California. In 1910, thousands of Mexicans fled through the southern border, due to the Mexican Revolution. Finally, a less severe push factor was the lack of land in Europe and China. Many were farmers there, and many didn’t own much or any land. You either farmed the little land you had, or farmed somebody else's. Seeing that most couldn’t support families like this, they fled to