The Growth of Cities Answers

What factor would have most likely prevented the problems that cities faced during urbanization?

By paying low wages, factory owners were able to

This excerpt by British physician John Griscom was written in 1842.By providing the laboring classes with better tenements, improved ventilation, and healthy and cleanly arrangements in respect to yards, sinks and sewerage, they will certainly suffer less from sickness and premature mortality, and a vast amount of pauperism, crime, and wretchedness be prevented . . .

What was the biggest effect that new technology had on farm workers?

The shift toward mass production affected consumers by

Workers were attracted to industrial cities because

This excerpt is from a doctor’s testimony to an 1819 British parliamentary committee.When I was a surgeon in the infirmary, accidents were very often admitted to the infirmary, through the children's hands and arms having being caught in the machinery; in many instances the muscles, and the skin is stripped down to the bone, and in some instances a finger or two might be lost.

The graph shows the population of Manchester, England.

The middle class that emerged during the Industrial Revolution consisted mainly of