Social Sciences and History / Unit 2 SSH 0105 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Urbanization, Immigration, and the Great Migration
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The idea
Electricity and steam freed factories from rivers, and cities filled with workers from the countryside and from southern and eastern Europe. African Americans left the rural South for northern cities: the Great Migration.
In practice
Push of violence and poverty; pull of wages and the vote.
Where people slip
Both groups met discrimination and blame for urban ills. Settlement houses, largely run by women, offered relief.
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