THE GROWTH OF CITIES AND INDUSTRY

Population statistics show the huge growth of cities in size and density. Chicago, for example, grew from a population of about 100 in 1830 to 1,100,000 in 1890 to 2,185,000 in 1920. Chicago Population Chart. Such growth did not come without problems. In the cities immigrants worked in sweatshop conditions for subsistence wages. ................
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