Late eighteenth and early nineteenth century marked a time of great urbanization in America. Between 1860 and 1910, the population of cities increased from six million to forty-four million. Two factors had contributed to such growth: industrialization and immigration. Industrialization yielded new technologies that performed farm work at a more efficient rate than what was possible before with only humans and animals. This, therefore, reduced the amount of laborers required. Unable to compete with and replaced by machines, many farmers migrated to the cities for better job opportunities. Within a span of ten years, from 1880 to 1890, rural towns lost about forty percent of their population. These agricultural workers, however, are not
