Industrialization

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Industrialization
Immigration
Reform
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Purpose of This Lecture

• Review What Weve Learned in this Unit So Far,
  and then
• Explain Where the Unit is Headed

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Industrialization

• Machine farming ? decline in demand for farm
  workers
• Machine production (factories) ? rise in demand
  for factory workers
• Factories were built in cities ? close to workers
  and consumers and transportation systems, which
  brought raw materials and transported finished
  products

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Industrialization

• (continued)
• Market Revolution ? American government
  attempted to support industrialization
• private ownership
• govt stayed out of economy (aka free
  enterprise)
• Rise of banks ? provided loans to aspiring
  industrialists
• Unregulated ? sometimes led to instability
• Rise of Monopolies
• Robber Barons
• Attempts at Anti-Trust Legislation (largely
  ineffective)
• Rise of Unions

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Industrialization

• (continued)
• Jobs in cities led to migration (from farms to
  cities- aka urbanization) and immigration (from
  foreign countries to American cities).

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Immigration

• Both Push Pull Factors increased immigration
• Push- Escaping failing European economies,
  political religious persecution, natural
  disasters, wars
• Pull- job opportunities, religious political
  freedom, safety

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Immigration

• (continued)
• Urbanization ? Growth of cities caused by
  immigration and migration
• In particular, freed slaves migrate to northern
  cities looking for work
• Cities grew too quickly
• Overcrowded with a lack of services and little
  government aid led to horrible living working
  conditions

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Effects of
Industrialization, Immigration, Urbanization

• Resistance to Immigration - nativism
  (anti-immigrant sentiments) led to
  immigration restrictions like the Chinese
  Exclusion Act - Americanization Movement
  (attempt to force American culture on
  immigrants) - Led to daily discrimination
  against immigrants (ex Italian Catholics)
• Reform Movement
• -Attempts to deal with the problems of
  industrialization, urbanization, and immigration
• -this is the last piece of our unit