Critical Thinking 15-2 # 4 & 5

What solution (or attempted solution) to an urban problem discussed in this section do you think had the most impact? Why?

The most successful solution to urbanization,which was a result of rapid growth of cities, mainly in the northeast and Midwest, was definitely the Americanization movement. The Americanization movement was designed to assimilate people of wide-ranging cultures into the dominant culture. this movement basically taught the immigrants of the standard American culture and instructed them on typical jobs they would be expected to perform. (469)
It was also an improvement to have the different cultures assigned their own region of a city. For example, in New York, the German and Russian cultures had th largest numbers in Queens, whereas the Irish dominated Manhattan. Unfortunately, this didn't bode well with the immigrants who wanted to keep their own cultures. Despite this, it was the the greatest solution that America had at the time, and it certainly hat a great impact, goo or bad. (469)
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What effects did the migration from rural ares to the cities in the late 19th century have on urban society?

The rapid migration of not only Immigrants, but natives (United State Born citizens), had many effects on todays modern urban society. The main reason so many immigrants were migrating to the cities in the northeast was because it was a far cheaper, more affordable place to live in. Not to mention, the city is also a place where one can have any job imaginable, which gives immigrants wider options for an occupation. Farmers were moving into cities due to the rapid improvements in technology during this period. (470)
In Urban societies, there simply wasn't room for both families of locals and immigrants in those small little towns. Therefore, the immigrants decided to move into the cities since they had more opportunities there anyway. Not only were they unwanted immigrants in rural societies, but African Americans as well. They stated migrating into the cities also. they did so in order to escape from racial violence, economic hardship and political oppression. (471)