AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
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Question
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when Hawaiians moved to the US after it became a US territory
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when African Americans moved north for job opportunities created by US entry into WWI
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Americans moved out west for free land granted by the Homestead Act
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Americans fled Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona after the Zimmerman telegram was made public
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Detailed explanation-1: -The First Great Migration (1910-1940) had Black southerners relocate to northern and midwestern cities including: New York, Chicago, Detroit, and Pittsburgh. When the war effort ramped up in 1917, more able bodied men were sent off to Europe to fight leaving their industrial jobs vacant.
Detailed explanation-2: -It was caused primarily by the poor economic conditions for African American people, as well as the prevalent racial segregation and discrimination in the Southern states where Jim Crow laws were upheld.
Detailed explanation-3: -The relocations of African Americans have been among the most consequential migrations in American history. Historians refer to one sequence as the Great Migration, referring to the exodus of more than seven million people from the South to states in the North and West in the decades between 1910 and 1970.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Great Migration was the relocation of more than 6 million Black Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from about 1916 to 1970.