Crash Course

Growth, Cities, and Immigration

  • Video
  • 13 min
  • 7/15/2013
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View ContentGrowth, Cities, and Immigration

In a brief 13-minute video, Crash Course describes how America went from being an agricultural country to an industrial power in large part due to immigrants in the late 1800s into the 1900s.


Discussion Questions

If America’s second Industrial Revolution (and the subsequent shift from rural to urban) was heavily impacted by migrants, why do some Americans still hold an anti-immigrant bias?