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1865-1900
RECONSTRUCTION
SETTLING THE WEST
INDUSTRIALIZATION
IMMIGRATION
URBANIZATION
1901-1929
IMPERIALISM
ORGANIZED CRIME
WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE
PROGRESSIVE ERA
WWI
1930-1945
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Home
1865-1900
RECONSTRUCTION
SETTLING THE WEST
INDUSTRIALIZATION
IMMIGRATION
URBANIZATION
1901-1929
IMPERIALISM
ORGANIZED CRIME
WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE
PROGRESSIVE ERA
WWI
1930-1945
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Urbanization is a population shift from rural to urban areas, "the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas", and the ways in which each society adapts to the change.