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Urbanization
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- The early cities
- Immigration
- Migrating from farm to city
- Streetcars Shape the Cities
- The gap between rich and poor
- City Political Machines
- City reform
- Improvements in the cities
- The cities blossom
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A major result of industrialization in the United States was the transformation of the rural, agricultural nation to an urban one. At the time of the American Revolution (1775–83), when the American colonists fought England to win their independence, 95 percent...
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