WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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African Americans were not allowed to serve in the war.
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Thousands of African Americans moved north to take jobs in northern cities (the Great Migration).
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Segregation in the South ended for African Americans.
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Most African Americans opposed the war and thousands were jailed under the Espionage Act
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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: -Arguably the most profound effect of World War I on African Americans was the acceleration of the multi-decade mass movement of black, southern rural farm laborers northward and westward to cities in search of higher wages in industrial jobs and better social and political opportunities.
Detailed explanation-3: -Africans came to the New World in the earliest days of the Age of Exploration. In the early 1500s, Africans trekked across the many lands in North, Central, and South America that were claimed by Spain, some coming in freedom and some in slavery, working as soldiers, interpreters, or servants.