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A 7 page paper which examines the impact of migration and immigration on the political and social history of Chicago since the Civil War. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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quite simply, the timeless allure of employment opportunities and economic prosperity. The opening of the Erie Canal in 1848 meant that goods and people could be conveniently transferred to
Chicago (Merriam, 1929). In fact, transportation, both water and rail, would contribute to making Chicago by the time of the Civil War a leading trade center (Merriam, 1929).
During the Reconstruction that followed the Civil War, America began not only a healing process but also entered into a frenetic period of rebuilding. The Industrial Revolution, which had
stalled somewhat during the Civil War, was now propelling the U.S. economy full speed ahead, and this was never more evident than in Chicago, which from 1890 on aggressively pursued
manufacturing development, which included iron, steel, publishing, garment industries, electrical manufacturers, and after the invention of the automobile, served as a major construction and repair headquarters (Merriam, 1929). Where
there is industry, there has to be workers, and most of Chicagos workforce would be comprised of immigrants. In fact, much of Chicagos political and social history has been
written not by native Chicagoans, but by the foreigners who migrated there. In his urban history of Chicago, which was first published in 1929, Charles Edward Merriam observed, "The
racial complexity of Chicago is one of the characteristic features of its social composition, and is directly related to its processes of political control. No other great city of
the world has a like problem of racial heterogeneity, with the exception of New York" (p. 134). There is no way to separate politics and society. The two go
together, but sometimes when there are several racial groups stirred into the mix, it is like trying to combine oil and water. Chicago, to put it mildly, is a
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