Immigration and City Growth
Political Persecution Religious Persecution Famine Push Factors Political Persecution Religious Persecution Famine
Pull Factors Hope for better opportunities Religious freedom Adventure Job opportunities
Immigrants
Immigration Processing Ellis Island Angel Island
Reasons Why Cities Developed Specialized industries like steel in Pittsburgh and meat packing in Chicago Immigration from other countries Movement of Americans from rural to urban areas for job opportunities Many immigrants took jobs in the textile mills of New England
Many immigrant children worked in textile factories Child Labor Many immigrant children worked in textile factories
Inventions that Contributed to Industrial Growth Lighting—Thomas Edison Telephone—Alexander Graham Bell Assembly line—Henry Ford
Thomas Edison Alexander Graham Bell Henry Ford
Problems with City Growth Rapid growth led to overcrowded immigrant neighborhoods and tenements
Solutions Settlement Houses—the Hull House by Jane Addams Political bosses offer jobs and housing
Hull House
Challenges Faced by Cities Tenements and Ghettos were overcrowded Political Corruption by the political bosses
tenements
Sources: Immigrants: www.kued.org Ellis Island: www.latinamericanstudies.org Angel Island: http://static.acon.org/images/aiisf/AngelIslandSite001.jpg Child Labor: www.historyplace.com Thomas Edison:www.bu.edu Alexander Graham Bell: it.wikipedia.org Henry Ford: www.shadetreemechanic.com Hull House: xroads.virginia.edu Tenements: http://www.stamfordhistory.org/images/jhs_tenement.jpg