immigration and urbanization

Question 1

What is urbanization?

Answer 1

an area developing into a growing city

Question 2

What contributed to growth in cities between 1860 and 1890?

Answer 2

immigration caused urbanization because people would move into the country and into the city (mostly for jobs)

Question 3

define assimilation

Answer 3

to become a larger part of another culture

Question 4

define tenement

Answer 4

a tiny family apartment in a larger apartment building, associated with slums.

Question 5

define nativist

Answer 5

someone that supported opportunities and benefits for native born americans (idk for sure)

Question 6

what are three push factors?

Answer 6

natural disasters, overpowering government, poverty/unemployed, bad economy

Question 7

what are three pull factors?

Answer 7

jobs, safer, stronger economy/more stable

Question 8

why did many immigrants settle in large cities?

Answer 8

mostly for jobs and idk what else

Question 9

where did the “old” immigrants primarily come from?

Answer 9

northern and western europe

Question 10

how were the “old” immigrants different from the “new”?

Answer 10

different religious and cultural backgrounds

Question 11

define slum

Answer 11

poor, run-down, urban neighborhood