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As the population soared, sewage disposal, drinking water, and trash removal became difficult to provide.

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French speaking Canadians moved to america due to a land shortage. settled on the east coast of new England and seeked to work at textile mills.

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in the 1840's the Irish became the largest immigration group due to the irish potato famine

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With the creation of roads this road was built in the 19th century. It spanned from Nashville to New Orleans and was named after Andrew Jackson because he was the hero of the battle of New Orleans.

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Peter Cooper's steam locomotive that went 13 miles on the B&O Railroad

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Chicago in 1890 had 2,048 miles of streets. Only 629 miles were paved with wooden blocks.

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Not many city streets were paved. Most became mud holes in the rain, made dust clouds in dry weather, and froze ruts in the winter.

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The impact of steam technology on the economies of the South and West was staggering. The presence of dependable transportation on the Mississippi drew cotton cultivation farther into the nation’s interior, western farmers flooded into the Ohio Valley, and fur trappers and traders pressed up the Missouri River.

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Louis sullivan constructed this building in 1890 saying he wanted to build a "proud and soaring thing"

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In the cotton country, Indians had already cleared large expanses of land for agriculture. With Indians dying of disease, southern frontiersman could plant corn and cotton quickly and reap early profits with minimum labor

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A big downfall of the urbanization of America is that as the cities were growing, the population of the "disadvantaged" began to rise.

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Blue collar workers lived in tenements, replacing the open fields and clusters of small homes that once had dominated the urban landscape. Large houses formerly occupied by domestic manufacturers and their apprentices were broken up into tiny apartments by profit-hungry speculators who rented them to desperate laborers. In cities like New York, laborers lived fifty to a house in some working-class areas.

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After the civil war, technology took a big part in modernizing America with the inventions of cars, telephones, cameras, and many other new things.

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As cities expanded it gave the middle class americans more opportunities.