THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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The Great Migration
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The Great Emigration
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The Great Depression
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Great Migration was one of the largest movements of people in United States history. Approximately six million Black people moved from the American South to Northern, Midwestern, and Western states roughly from the 1910s until the 1970s.
Detailed explanation-2: -The primary factors for migration among southern African Americans were segregation, indentured servitude, convict leasing, an increase in the spread of racist ideology, widespread lynching (nearly 3, 500 African Americans were lynched between 1882 and 1968), and lack of social and economic opportunities in the South.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Great Migration was the movement of some six million African Americans from rural areas of the Southern states of the United States to urban areas in the Northern states between 1916 and 1970. It occurred in two waves, basically before and after the Great Depression.