Immigration and Urbanization Concepts

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Immigration

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Moving to a new country

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Emigration

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Moving around the same country

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Slums

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Overcrowded, jammed streets with garbage, pushcarts, horses, and people.

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Tenements

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Small, crammed apartments with no heat, windows, or indoor bathrooms.

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Building Codes

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Brings standards and change to construction and safety to buildings.

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Jacob Riis

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Muckraker who created 'How the Other Half Lives', an exposé revealing how poor people in cities live.

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Push factor

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Reasons why an immigrant will leave their home country, not a voluntary reason.

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Pull factor

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Reasons why an immigrant wants to migrate to the United States, voluntarily or by choice.

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What were the four effects of rapid urbanization?

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1. 1: Garbage
   
   2: Littering in the streets
   
   3: Pollution
   
   4: No building Codes

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2. What neighborhood are these characteristics describing?:

3. Neat, spacious houses in the city lined with tree-shaded streets. 
   

4. Disease broke out less than it did in the slums. 

5. Doctors, lawyers, business managers and office workers. 

Leisure activities, such as clubs, singing societies, bowling gave a sense of community.

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Middle Class