Immigration was a huge factor during 1865-1898. More than 2,812,191 immigrants arrived in the U.S., mainly from Europe. About 70% of all immigrants came through New York, in which became known as the “Golden Door.” Many of them were fleeing crop failure, shortages in land and jobs, raising taxes, personal freedom, economic opportunity, or escape from political or religious persecution. The rise of big business in the United States encouraged massive migrations and urbanization, sparked government and popular efforts to reshape the U.S. economy and environment. The most important factors that impact of both late 19th-century international migration to the United States and internal migration within the United States were immigrants living in …show more content…
Strong (Document 2) attacks cities, as they become a serious menace to the civilization because it has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant. Supporting the argument that immigrants attraction to cities is a danger for the ones already there: “Our fifty principal cities in 1880 contained 39.3 percent of our entire German population and 45.8 percent of the Irish…Not only does the proportion of the poor increase in the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.” Josiah Strong (Document 2) attacks immigrants and their attraction to cities as a Protestant minister. For the purpose of inspiring Anglo-Saxons to assimilate the other lesser races into itself. Large waves of immigration in the nineteenth century made New York City America’s largest, most diverse city, but also it's most unhealthy as the large population made it more susceptible to …show more content…
in areas of low socioeconomic status. Crime, poverty and drug addiction are the many issues that the Philadelphia black population dealt with that added to the apparent social blight of community. DuBois (Document 7) conducted a sociological study of African Americans in Philadelphia with the intent of identifying social problems present in the African American community. Supporting the argument that DuBois’s Philadelphia research was pivotal in his reformulation of the concept of race: “Less than one-third of the Negroes living in this ward were born here, and over one-half were born in the South...That the Negro immigration to the city is not an influx of whole families is shown by the fact that 83 percent of the children under ten were born in Philadelphia. The great influx comes in the years from twenty-one to thirty, for of these but 17 percent were born in the city.” W. E. B. DuBois (Document 7) conducts a sociological study of African Americans in Philadelphia with the intent of identifying social problems present in the African American community as a sociologist, for the purpose of sought to ascertain something of the distribution of their race, occupations and daily life, and their relation to million white fellow-citizens. A huge internal population shift among African Americans, particularly during the World Wars, when defense industries required