8. The material in the passage would be most relevant to a long discussion of which of the following topics? (A) The reasons for the subsequent economic difficulties of those who participated in the Great Migration (B) The effect of migration on the regional economies of the United States f...
The Great Migration Begins WhenWorld War I broke outin Europe in 1914, industrialized urban areas in the North, Midwest and West faced a shortage of industrial laborers, as the war put an end to the steady tide of European immigration to the United States. ...
To fulfill these job shortages, northern manufacturers recruited throughout the South causing what is known as The Great Migration, where at least 500,000 African-Americans moved from the South to Northern and Midwestern cities. After the World War I, the United States should have had a time...
(B) The effect of migration on the regional economies of the United States following the First World War (C) The transition from a rural to an urban existence for those who migrated in the Great Migration (D) The transformation of the agricultural South following the boll weevil infestation ...
Webpage of Keneshia N. Grant, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science at Howard University in Washington, DC and author of The Great Migration and the Democratic Party: Black Voters and the Realignment of American Politics in the 20th Century
The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860: A History of the Continuing Settlement of the United States. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1940.Marcus Lee Hansen, The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860: A History of the Continuing Settlement of the United States (...
Everything you need to know about planning and booking a migration safari to see Africa's great wildebeest migration.
Great Migration Facts There have been several major movements of different peoples in world history referred to as "Great Migrations," but in terms of American history it generally refers to two large movements of black Americans from the south to northern cities. The First Great Migration took ...
History has recorded a great migration in the United States from roughly 1840 to 1870 when an estimated 400,000 people took to the Oregon Trail and its tributaries to leave one life behind and find a new life in the American West. It was one of the largest, if not the largest, mass ...
Americans understand this story as a great saga of immigrants and assimilation of people drawn to the United States as to the promised land of opportunity. But what lay behind this great migration? And how unique was the American experience? To answer these questions, Walter Nugent looks at ...