Urban populations grew rapidly in nineteenth-century America because of both immigration and
A) the migration of Americans from rural areas.
B) a sudden rise in fertility rates.
C) the migration of Southerners to the North.
D) an influx of free African Americans.
E) the abandoning of the West by many settlers.
Answer: A) the migration of Americans from rural areas.
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