1. APUSH Review: Video #39: The Growth Of Cities (Urbanization) (Key Concept 6.2, I, A - E)
Shoutout to Mr. Naple’s class in New Haven. Thanks for the support, good luck!
Everything You Need To Know About The Growth Of Cities To Succeed In APUSH

2. The Growth Of Cities
In the late-19th century, cities will see tremendous growth
Factories and businesses
International migrants move to cities
Asia - Chinese immigrants (pre- 1882) settle on the West Coast, RR workers
“New Immigrants” - Southern and Eastern Europe - Italy, Poland, etc.
10,000,000 between 1860 and 1890

3. International Migration
Why did migrants move here?
Escape poverty
Religious persecution - Jews in Russia fled to the US
Little social mobility in home country - “Rags to riches” stories in the US
Horatio Alger

4. Internal Migration
Many African Americans moved within and out of the South
To escape sharecropping
This will increase in the 20th century - The “Great Migration”

5. Characteristics Of Urban Neighborhoods
Often based on ethnicity, race, and class
“Little Italy”
Provided new cultural opportunities

6. Debates Over Assimilation
Assimilation - adapting or “becoming American”
Was a result of:
International migration
Led to:
Nativism (again)
American Protective Association (APA) - sought to limit immigrants and keep Catholics from holding office
Similar to Know-Nothing Party of 1850s
Immigrants often compromised between their own cultures and US culture:
2nd generation were more likely to assimilate than 1st generation
Public schools only taught English

7. Political Machines Emerged in cities
Political organizations that provided jobs and services to constituents and received support in return
Tammany Hall in NYC
Boss Tweed

8. A Growing Middle Class Caused by:
Need for managers at the corporate level
Increased access to education
Growing leisure time that expanded consumer culture:
Vaudeville shows, baseball, consumer goods

9. Quick Recap Reasons for the growth of cities
Reasons for international migration
Characteristics of cities
Assimilation and nativism
Political machines
Emerging middle class

10. See You Back Here For Video #40: Transcontinental RRs, Westward Settlement, & Native Americans
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