The industrialization of the late 19 century brought on rapid urbanization. The increasing factory businesses created many more job opportunities in cities and people began to flock from rural areas to large urban locations.

Urbanization 

Tenement 

The housing solution came in the form of tenement buildings, which were cheap, high-rise apartment buildings that could house many families virtually one on top of the other.

Americanization 

Americanization, in the early 20th century, activities that were designed to prepare foreign-born residents of the United States for full participation in citizenship.

Immigration 

During the Gilded Age there were around 11.7 million people that came to America. From those 11.7 million immigrants 10. 6 million of those immigrants came from Europe, which made up 90 percent of the immigration population.

Ghettos

A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure.

Nativists 

The nativism of the Gilded Age was caused by anti-immigration sentiment. This was against a new wave of Eastern European and Asian settlers

Chinese Exclusion Act

This act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States.

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