In the years 1880 through 1905, both immigration and urbanization rates increased tremendously. This created many problems. The government had to figure out how to handle problems such as nativists’ hate crimes against immigrants, immigrants attempting to become citizens, unsanitary conditions in cities, and natural disasters laying siege to entire cites at once. Immigrations rates rose tremendously. People flooded into the US from all of Europe, Japan, and China. (Doc 1). Some Americans began seeing immigrants as a threat. (Doc 5). They believed that, because immigrants were often willing to work for significantly lower wages, immigrants were taking jobs away from native born citizens. These nativists groups pushed the government to control the rates of immigration. The government did this by making citizenship more difficult to achieve. They would also occasionally not admit ‘undesirable’ people in to America at all. People who were illiterate or had illness were commonly deported. However, Asian people faced even more prejudice. Schools and other public buildings were segregated on the West Coast. Nativists’ …show more content…
Cities grew at a large rate as people began flooding to them for factory work. In order to provide living space for all these people, tenement houses were built. These buildings were built with the purpose of fitting as many people into them as possible, with little regard to sanitation, air ventilation, or comfort. The government therefore began enforcing safety codes for cities. They required certain amounts of windows and began paying for sanitation teams. These workforces would clean the streets, pick up trash, and attempt to keep the city clean. Another issue faced was city safety. Petty crimes and fires were all too common. After extreme natural disasters such as the Great Chicago Fire and the San Francisco Earthquake, cites began adding firefighters and police forces to their