THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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Racism in the North, Opportunity in Canada
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Decrease in immigration
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Persecutionin the South, Economic opportunity in the North
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The driving force behind the mass movement was to escape racial violence, pursue economic and educational opportunities, and obtain freedom from the oppression of Jim Crow. The Great Migration is often broken into two phases, coinciding with the participation and effects of the United States in both World Wars.
Detailed explanation-2: -“Pull” factors included encouraging reports of good wages and living conditions that spread by word of mouth and that appeared in African American newspapers.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -Every year, millions of hooves drum against Africa’s plains, raising dust and devouring kilometres as wildebeest, zebra and gazelles trek across the Serengeti and the Masai Mara. Called the Great Migration, their odyssey will lead them from drought to water and good grazing, though the way will be fraught with peril.