What was the main reason for poor living conditions in cities?
a. cities didn’t care about the welfare of new workers.
b. new workers could not adapt to living in city buildings.
c. new workers did not clean up after themselves.
d. cities were not prepared for so many new workers.

Correct answer choice is :

Poor climate, housing, and living circumstances are the foremost reasons for poor health in urban areas. Pollution of water sources can produce diseases of waterborne infection. Close vicinity to other people can make the expanse of many kinds of contagious disease more likely.

The main reason for poor living conditions in cities was that the cities were not prepared for so many new workers.  

Further Explanation:

As the industrialization grow in United States, Many new workers came to big cities looking for work as they thought that working under some industry will give them more money and make wealthy. But they were unaware of the fact that cities were not equipped to take workers more than a particular number as there were no such major arrangements in the cities for workers to live. Unknown of this very fact, workers moved to the cities in search of work and cities were not able to accommodate those numbers. This problem lead to creation of ‘Slums’ in the cities and there were poor living conditions in the cities. In Slums, big population of workers used to live in small areas. Not only this, workers from small cities came to big cities attracted by industrialization but soon industries also ran out of jobs which lead to unemployment among workers and living conditions in the cities worsened more due to this. The formation of urbanization is also linked to creation of Slums. The development of slums in the cities of developing countries is one of two factors. The delay of urban planning on the occupation of the space leading to the maintenance of pre-existing slums and new settlements on unhealthy sites in the peripheries.

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Answer Details:

Grade: High School

Subject: History

Chapter: Industrialization

Keywords:

Industrialization, Slums, Living conditions, Unemployment, Industries, Population, Maintenance, Urbanization, Accommodation, Workers.