Immigration and Migration in the Gilded Age

AP US History· difficulty 3/5

Late 19th-century urbanization saw

A
$All people leaving major cities to settle on western frontier homesteads$
B
$Massive growth (NYC, Chicago, Philadelphia) with associated tenements, sanitation issues, and ethnic neighborhoods$
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C
$Cities banned by federal law as unhealthy and morally corrupting environments$
D
$Cities shrinking as Americans returned to farms and small rural towns$

Explanation

By 1900, ~40% of Americans lived in cities, up from ~20% in 1860.

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