Why was each group drawn to the cities in the Northeast and Midwest?
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1.
IMMIGRANTS
◦CITIES CHEAPER AND MORE
CONVIENT
◦ETHNIC NEIGHBORHOODS
AND CULTURAL
OPPORTUNITIES NOT FOUND
IN RURAL AREAS
2.
FARMERS
◦FEWER FARM LABORERS
NEEDED BECAUSE OF NEW
TECHNOLOGY
◦BELIEVED JOBS COULD BE
FOUND IN CITIES
◦CULTURAL OPPORTUNITIES
3. AFRICAN AMERICANS
◦ FEWER FARM LABORERS NEEDED
BECAUSE OF TECHNOLOGY
◦ BELIEVED JOBS COULD BE FOUND IN
CITIES
◦ HOPE OF LESS RACIAL VIOLENCE AND
POLITICAL OPPRESSION THAN THE
SOUTH
◦ CULTURAL OPPORTUNITIES NOT FOUND
IN RURAL AREAS
LACK
OF SAFE AND EFFICENT
TRANSPORTATION
◦ CONSTRUCTION OF MASSTRANSIT NETWORKS, BASED ON
SUCH NEW FORMS OF
TRANSPORTATION AS CABLE
CARS, ELECTRIC STREETCARS,
AND ELECTRIC SUBWAYS
UNSAFE
DRINKING WATER
◦CHLORINATION AND
FILTRATION
LACK
OF SANITATION
◦SEWER LINES AND
SANITATION DEPARTMENTS
FIRE
HAZARDS
◦ FULL-TIME PROFESSIONAL FIRE
DEPARTMENTS AND AUTOMATIC
FIRE SPRINKLER
◦ REPLACEMENT OF MANY
WOODEN BUILDINGS WITH
STRUCTURES MADE OF BRICK,
STONE AND CONCRETE
CRIME
◦FULL-TIME PROFESSIONAL
POLICE DEPARTMENTS