What drew so many people to move to cities in Europe and America?

Question

A. a large supply of industrial jobs
B. better living conditions than in the country
C. access to good schools for working class children
D. safer public health conditions

Answer 1

A

Answer 2

All in your list had an effect. The Industrial Revolution led to the rise in the middle class and mercantile jobs which would naturally attract people to urban areas and away from the agrarian lifestyle. But the question that I pose to you is did cities actually provide better living conditions and safer public health? Where were the ghettos located and where was there more crime and disease ? Something to think about.

Answer 3

i think it would have probably been a collection of all of the above but the most comman thing to motivate people to leave the country side in the 1800 in England was definitely the industrial revolution i think schools would have been low on there list of priority's though in fact very low as most people left school with a sub standard level of education and those affected by poverty would have only had a basic if any education and would have been working from a young age but as you didnt give a certain point in history i can only speculate regarding Europe and i would say from Europe to America looking at the potato famine and persecution in homelands may also be a good starting point if you mean emigration to those lands apart from that i cant offer any more help

Answer 4

C'mon you can answer this question yourself.

The main reason people moved to urban areas was the industrial revolution. There were more industrial jobs in the city than in countryside. In Britian the number of people living in urban areas exceeded those living in the countryside in 1850. The US did not get to that stage until 1920.

Answer 5

Your first inclination 'a' coupled with general access and transportation issues. Both 'b & d were the exact opposite case and even the school situation was quite bad save those schools of the upper calss or night schools around the turn of the century which otherwise would have meant no school for the working poor!

Answer 6

A. from the 19th century (basic industrial revolution history here)

But in earlier times cities grew as trading centres, and as places that could be defended.

Answer 7

Your answers are all very good. There was always a diversification of occupations so that one could find what was desired more easily in the city, ie., like doctors, dentists, butchers, bakers, etc.

Answer 8

Maybe A) 60% B) 20% C)20% , all these combinations make them to settle in.

Answer 9

A. people need to work.

Answer 10

A.