GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY ACTIVITY Cities （地理和历史活动的城市）.pdf

Name Date Class GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY ACTIVITY 17 (continued) Cities Within Cities: Ethnic Enclaves At the time of the Civil War, most people in the United States worked on farms. As industrialization grew, people moved to the cities where new jobs were available. Just 50 years after the Civil War, more people worked in factories or in other urban workplaces than on farms. This change had begun in the northeastern United States where the first water-powered textile mills were located. Industrialization eventually spread to the Midwest, where Chicago became an important manufacturing city. In addition to people migrating from farms to cities, immi- grants from many countries came to the United States to work in the factories. Between 1860 and 1880, about 5 million immigrants, which included many Chinese and French Canadians, came to the United States. That figure increased to 9 million between 1880 and 1900. Many of the immigrants during those years were from East- ern Europe. (See the table below.) Immigrant Neighborhoods When they arrived in the United States, many immigrants settled in cities because jobs were more abundant there. Their experiences in large cities such as New York, Boston, or Chicago were similar. Immigrants were often financially poor and lived Immigrants Entering United States from Selected European Countries, 1820–1909 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 . c Millions of 0.1 0.5 1.4 2.7 2.1 2.7 5.2 3.7 8.2 n I , s immigrants e i n a