Question

What motivated social reformers to tackle the problems of urbanization? Explain?

Answer 1

Answer:

The social reformers believed that industrialization and urbanization had created serious social disorders right from city slums to corporate exploitation. ... All these things together motivated the social reformers to tackle the problems of urban poverty

Answer 2

Answer:

Urbanization occurred rapidly in the second half of the nineteenth century in the United States for a number of reasons. The new technologies of the time led to a massive leap in industrialization, requiring large numbers of workers. New electric lights and powerful machinery allowed factories to run twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Workers were forced into grueling twelve-hour shifts, requiring them to live close to the factories.