1. Immigration and
City Growth

2. Political Persecution Religious Persecution Famine
Push Factors
Political Persecution
Religious Persecution
Famine

3. Pull Factors Hope for better opportunities Religious freedom Adventure
Job opportunities

4. Immigrants

5. Immigration Processing
Ellis Island
Angel Island

6. 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

7. Many immigrant children worked in textile factories
Child Labor
Many immigrant children worked in textile factories

8. Inventions that Contributed to
Industrial Growth
Lighting—Thomas Edison
Telephone—Alexander Graham Bell
Assembly line—Henry Ford

9. Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Henry Ford

10. Problems with City Growth
Rapid growth led to overcrowded immigrant neighborhoods and tenements

11. Solutions Settlement Houses—the Hull House by Jane Addams
Political bosses offer jobs and housing

12. Hull House

13. Challenges Faced by Cities
Tenements and Ghettos were overcrowded
Political Corruption by the political bosses

14. tenements

15. Sources:
Immigrants:
Ellis Island:
Angel Island:
Child Labor:
Thomas Edison:
Alexander Graham Bell: it.wikipedia.org
Henry Ford:
Hull House: xroads.virginia.edu
Tenements: