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1. 7.5.spi.1. identify the causes and consequences of urbanization (i.e. industrial development, education, health care, cultural opportunities, poverty, overcrowding, disease, pollution, crime).
2. Urbanization is the formation and growth of cities.
3. Urbanization is the formation and growth of cities.
4. Immigration is when people from move from one country to another
5. From 1870-1900, more than 7 million people migrated from a rural (farm) to an urban area.
6. Most people moved to urban (city) areas to find jobs. Some cities began to be associated with certain industries:
Detroit: Automobile
Los Angeles (Hollywood): Motion Pictures
Houston: Oil
Nashville: Music
7. Many cities experienced overcrowding conditions which led to poverty, poor sanitation, and health problems.
8. Jacob Riis wrote about the urban tenement life in his book, How the Other Half Lives
9. Frank Julian Sprague invented the electric trolley to speed people to their jobs and helped the growth of suburban (outside a city but not on a farm) living.