Nate Davis
Mrs. Rappold
American history 5
16 february 2016
Gilded Age: 9 When during the period of mass immigration that began in the mid-1840’s and ended in the mid-1920, the population of the United States increased from about 17 million to more than 105 million. This six fold increase was unparalleled elsewhere in the Western industrializing world. Even before the onset of mass immigration, extremely high rates of natural growth had doubled the population of the new nation in less than 25 years, but toward the end of the 19th century natural growth rates declined as the excess of births over deaths diminished. During the 1870s death rates were as high as 22 per thousand and birth rates exceeded 40 per thousand. By the decade …show more content…
That unparalleled rate of growth among the white population was accompanied, as in many parts of Europe, by a rapid rate of urbanization. Unlike Europe, the diverse resources of an undeveloped frontier stimulated high levels of interregional migration to non-urban settings as well. Between 1790 and 1850, the urban proportion of the total population more than tripled to reach 15 percent and increased by a similar margin in the succeeding six decades, so that by 1910 more than 45 percent of the population lived in urban settlements. Toward the turn of the 19th century, the city ward movement of people far exceeded migration to a greatly diminished frontier. By 1920, the population of the United States surpassed 100 million, and for the first time a narrow majority was urban. That is how, It forced workers to work harder to keep there …show more content…
Certainly, many of the descendants of northwest European immigrants have joined those with a longer American ancestry in the movement to the Pacific coast. By far the most conspicuous change in the distribution of ethnic groups has been the movement of blacks to the cities of the Northeast and Middle West. Overall, however, the regional representations of different ethnic groups have resulted from an incremental process of migration of varying volume and composition. Regional destinations were often established on the basis of new opportunities, or occasionally they were the unavoidable outcome of pressures to emigrate. So, the population movements of 1860-1915, workers grow, which meant more work got done, and that was how america succeeded, although crime and disease went