Urbanization, by definition, is the movement from rural areas to urban areas and the ways society adapts to this change. In the late 1800’s, this is exactly what happened, with rural living people moving to urban areas. This movement not only caused more people in the urban areas, but a huge influx of people,mainly immigrants, into the cities. Due to that, many discrepancies were made in how society worked in the time, which led to people having to adapt into the new way of life that they were offered. This meant that you could either become powerful, stay in the place you are, or accommodate the new way of living.
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There were two main groups of people that did exactly so, the native-born or the immigrants. Native born people mostly had it all in the right place, and then the immigrants started flowing in. With this huge population increase, the natives started fearing the worst, which was spread of communism, spread of catholicism, and immigrants taking their jobs. With this formed nativists, which would talk about how immigrants were taking the places of the rightful owner of the land. As William Evans Gordon states “Not a day passes but families are ruthlessly turned out to make room for foreign invaders. The rates are burdened with the education of thousands of foreign children”. He is stating how immigrants are causing great burden in the land, so much that the whole country is shaking, because they have to support these immigrants for their basic needs, one of them being education. This changed the country into thinking about how foreign people might change the way the country works entirely, due to the new industrial way. Immigrants however, didn't have it easy either. They had to go through checks, both on the west and east coast. The east coast was more lenient, because the immigrants that were coming in were Europeans. On the west coast however, immigrants had a much tougher time, because they were being persecuted for being Asian. It went as far as the Japanese revolting for not having their basic necessities, because the nativists stopped them from being educated. This became an international incident, in which the United States of America had to pass the Chinese Exclusion Act, which would stop all asian, mainly chinese, immigration for ten
One of the ways people gained power within cities and the governments, were political machines, and the people who controlled …show more content…
There were two main groups of people that did exactly so, the native-born or the immigrants. Native born people mostly had it all in the right place, and then the immigrants started flowing in. With this huge population increase, the natives started fearing the worst, which was spread of communism, spread of catholicism, and immigrants taking their jobs. With this formed nativists, which would talk about how immigrants were taking the places of the rightful owner of the land. As William Evans Gordon states “Not a day passes but families are ruthlessly turned out to make room for foreign invaders. The rates are burdened with the education of thousands of foreign children”. He is stating how immigrants are causing great burden in the land, so much that the whole country is shaking, because they have to support these immigrants for their basic needs, one of them being education. This changed the country into thinking about how foreign people might change the way the country works entirely, due to the new industrial way. Immigrants however, didn't have it easy either. They had to go through checks, both on the west and east coast. The east coast was more lenient, because the immigrants that were coming in were Europeans. On the west coast however, immigrants had a much tougher time, because they were being persecuted for being Asian. It went as far as the Japanese revolting for not having their basic necessities, because the nativists stopped them from being educated. This became an international incident, in which the United States of America had to pass the Chinese Exclusion Act, which would stop all asian, mainly chinese, immigration for ten