Read the following excerpt and answer the question Between

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Read the following excerpt and answer the question Between 1865 and 1920 was marked by the increasing concentration of people political power and economic activity in urban areas In 1860 there were nine cities with populations over 100 000 By 1910 there were fifty These large new cities were not coastal port cities like New York Boston and Philadelphia but laid inland along new transportation routes like Denver Chicago and Cleveland The first twelve presidents of the United States had all been born into farming communities but between 1865 and 1912 the presidency was filled by men with backgrounds representing businesses and cities Industrialization and urbanization reinforced each other and urban areas became increasingly congested As a result of unsanitary living conditions diseases like cholera dysentery and typhoid fever struck urban areas with increasing frequency Cities responded by paving streets digging sewers sanitizing water constructing housing and creating public transportation systems Urbanization occurs naturally from individual and corporate efforts to reduce time and expense in commuting and transportation while improving opportunities for jobs education housing and transportation Living in cities permits individuals and families to take advantage of the opportunities of proximity diversity and marketplace competition Increasing industrialization outpaced the supply of laborers able or willing to work in dangerous low paying and dead end jobs However the demand for low or unskilled jobs drove wages up and attracted waves of Irish Italian Polish Russian and other immigrants who could earn more in America than in their homelands What is the problem being addressed in the excerpt O Decisions to cut back on the unprecedented number o arriving to the United States O Support for Indian assimilation into the white man s culture O Advocate for the expansion of the transcontinental railroad