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Immigration & Urbanization. The Causes and Effects. Immigration and Migration. Poverty, Persecution cause millions of people to leave Europe, Japan, China, Mexico, and the Caribbean Jews leave Europe b/c of pogroms-religious persecution
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Immigration & Urbanization The Causes and Effects
Immigration and Migration • Poverty, Persecution cause millions of people to leave Europe, Japan, China, Mexico, and the Caribbean • Jews leave Europe b/c of pogroms-religious persecution • Immigrants are forced to adapt to new language and new culture • Hull house helps w/ assimilation
Immigration and Migration • Changes in agriculture cause people to migrate from rural U.S. to cities in search of work • B/c Inventions, like mechanical reaper, farms no longer need as many pple to work • Immigrants face discrimination in their efforts to find jobs and housing • Most live in tenement houses
Urbanization • Influx of immigrants and migrants cause a population BOOM in cities • Cities can’t keep up with sanitation, transportation, housing, fire, crime • City services such as sanitation are stretched to the limit
Urbanization • Reformers try to fix urban problems through education, training, charity, & political action • Jane Addams- Hull House • Jacob Riis- How the Other Half Lives • Horace Mann- Public Education
Politics • Political Machines develop to take advantage of the needs of Immigrants and Urban Poor. • b/c uneducated they do not know that they are being cheated out of tax $$$. • Cont. to vote for politicians b/c politicians reward them w/ jobs, housing, etc
Politics • City politicians use fraud and graft to maintain political power • Graft-reward people who help you get elected • “Boss” Tweed leader of Tammany Hall, most famous of them all • Corruption in National Politics results in the call for civil service jobs to be awarded on basis of merit • Pendleton Service Act • Take test to get job
Politics • Big business’s growing influence on politics defeats tariff reform that would aid wage earners • Business takes over gov’t politics