THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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The Dawes Act made free land available in the West
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More factory jobs were available in industrial cities
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Many white landowners refused to accept them as sharecroppers
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Racial discrimination did not occur in states outside the South
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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.
Detailed explanation-2: -“Cities grew because industrial factories required large workforces and workers and their families needed places to live near their jobs. Factories and cities attracted millions of immigrants looking for work and a better life in the United States.”
Detailed explanation-3: -“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-4: -Pull factors, which encouraged people to come to the United States, were mainly economic, technological, and social, and can be summed up by the idea of the “American Dream”-the ideal of the United States as a place of political and religious freedom, economic opportunity, and social mobility.