... Americans left the declining agricultural regions of the East and moving to the West. Most of the Americans who left the rural areas for industrial cities in the 1880s were southern black as they wanted to escape from oppression, poverty and debt in the rural South. (Alan Brinkley, 2004) However, the main source of urban population growth at that time was came from abroad, for example, from Canada, Latin America, China, Japan and Europe. However, later there was an increasing number of immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe. Italy, Russia and Poland were among the biggest sources of the late nineteenth century migrants. Especially after 1890, more than half of all immigrants came from these regions. (Alan Brinkley, 2004) Influences of the rapid growth of American cities and population Resentment among the native-born Americans All these led to a numerous problems in America afterward. Firstly, with the ...

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