Industrial Revolution, New Immigrants

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populations) began to form specific identities as many immigrant groups attempted to hold onto and practice precious customs and traditions. Even today, many neighborhoods or sections of some of the great cities in the United States reflect those ethnic heritages. Many of these cities experienced all of the challenges of rapid population growth coupled with the lack of infrastructure to support it. These cities did, however, form the foundation for the multiethnic, multicultural society (melting pot) that we now take pride in.

Steam ships, which were faster and offered lower fares, brought ever more immigrants to the US. Nearly 25 million Europeans made the voyage. Italians, Greeks, Hungarians, Poles, Jews and Slavs made up the majority. They flocked to urban destinations and made up the bulk of the U.S. industrial labor pool and filling these new industrial cities where they found jobs working in steel, coal, automobile, textile, and garment production.

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