american society
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- Created on: 02-12-19 12:55
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- American Society
- The position of African-Americans
- The South
- Between 1889 and 1929, 3724 people were lynched
- By 1890 the 'Jim Crow System' was still in operation
- The North
- Politicians tended to look the other way when it came to treatment of African Americans
- In 1900 there was violence between African Americans and Irish Americans in New York
- The South
- Immigration
- 18.4 million immigrants between 1890 and First World War
- Pull Factors
- Belief in America as a land of riches and freedom
- Improved transport to America
- Growing demand for migrant workers in the US
- Push Factors
- Poverty and hunger in European countries
- Those trying to escape prosecution
- Pull Factors
- 18.4 million immigrants between 1890 and First World War
- Urbanisation
- Between 1890 and 1914 the pace of urbanisation was unrelenting
- The construction boom
- New commercial and civic buildings
- Vast quantities of housing,tramways and elevated railways
- Concentrated in the North and East
- Small towns transformed as well as cities
- Street lighting,trams public utilities and civic buildings
- Districts formed in cities like the German-American community in Cincinnati
- Small towns transformed as well as cities
- Increase in urban populations driven by immigrants
- 18.4 million immigrants between 1890 and First World War
- Pull Factors
- Belief in America as a land of riches and freedom
- Improved transport to America
- Growing demand for migrant workers in the US
- Push Factors
- Poverty and hunger in European countries
- Those trying to escape prosecution
- Pull Factors
- BY 1900 the population was 76 million
- 18.4 million immigrants between 1890 and First World War
- Internal migration from the countryside to cities by African-Americans
- The position of African-Americans
- The South
- Between 1889 and 1929, 3724 people were lynched
- By 1890 the 'Jim Crow System' was still in operation
- The North
- Politicians tended to look the other way when it came to treatment of African Americans
- In 1900 there was violence between African Americans and Irish Americans in New York
- The South
- African-Americans moved out of the South to Northern cities
- The position of African-Americans
- The construction boom
- Between 1890 and 1914 the pace of urbanisation was unrelenting
- Consequences
- Immigration
- The position of African-Americans
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