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At the beginning of the nineteenth century, most American cities still functioned as the cities during the time of the Civil War. A very small proportion of the population was urban, because it took very close to the entire population to grow enough food to feed everyone. City growth has always depended very greatly on the efficiency of agriculture in a society. But as the years went on and cities became more urban, culture and politics were also changed and the need for reforms started to appear again.
Cities grew quickly, with huge increase of the population, largely poor, many of them foreigners, and much faster than city infrastructure and development could properly handle. Population density was extremely high, much higher than today, and large numbers of people lived in tenements. Tenement housing was dirty, crowded, noisy, and immensely unsanitary. Open septic tanks were common and storm sewers only brought more disease. Cities were smelly and unpleasant. Manhattan, for......

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