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A COMPREHENSIVE PICTURE OF AMERICA DURING 1890-1940 The rapid growth of American cities and population in the last decades of the nineteenth century had turned some of the American cities into places of crime, violent, corruption, congestion and disease. This article is about the historical and socio-economic background of America which led to the development of modern crime, crime-fighting forces and crime fiction. It will be covered two periods: 1890-1917 and 1917-1940. Reasons of the rapid growth of American cities and population To begin with, we should first discuss why there was a rapid growth of American cities and population, how it affected life in America afterward. The main reasons for the rapid growth of American cities and population in the nineteenth and twenties century are urbanization and immigration. In the half-century after the Civil War, the urban population increased sevenfold. Many people from the rural area moved to...

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