It is the natural default setting of one’s mind to live a happy life with having a steady income, and what better place to be than the land of opportunity. Due to this mindset, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the United States became very overpopulated especially in New York City. Even though the city lifestyle is set out be “living the dream”, this was not the case for everyone especially for the immigrants. City living was completely different in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries than it is now in today’s day and age. Most people currently living in the city cannot even comprehend what the city life was like one hundred years ago. Throughout the course of history, resources like literature have been written
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A novel that that demonstrates this very routine of providing detailed information about a time period is “How the other half lives” by Jacob A Riis. This novel shows us, why reform was extremely necessary, and also what it really was like to live in the city areas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as an immigrant. Photojournalist and news reporter, Riis, was one of the earliest social reformers to use his own work to educate to the people the effects that industrialization had on the immigrants of the United States.
In the late eighteenth century roughly about 90 percent of the U.S population lived in country like areas. Along with industrialization came urbanization and commercialization. Bigger companies bought out little farms forcing farmers to live and work in the city. Many factories in the northeast region of the United States had a mass increase in their production of goods. At this time around 1870 was when cities started getting more and more populated. There were 170 cities that had populations over 10,000 people and 15 cities that had more than 100,000 people (Primary Source). There were so many people because of the farmers and immigrants crowding cities causing more
A novel that that demonstrates this very routine of providing detailed information about a time period is “How the other half lives” by Jacob A Riis. This novel shows us, why reform was extremely necessary, and also what it really was like to live in the city areas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as an immigrant. Photojournalist and news reporter, Riis, was one of the earliest social reformers to use his own work to educate to the people the effects that industrialization had on the immigrants of the United States.
In the late eighteenth century roughly about 90 percent of the U.S population lived in country like areas. Along with industrialization came urbanization and commercialization. Bigger companies bought out little farms forcing farmers to live and work in the city. Many factories in the northeast region of the United States had a mass increase in their production of goods. At this time around 1870 was when cities started getting more and more populated. There were 170 cities that had populations over 10,000 people and 15 cities that had more than 100,000 people (Primary Source). There were so many people because of the farmers and immigrants crowding cities causing more