The Great Migration
This was the main reason African Americans moved from the South to Northern cities during the Great Migration.
To find better job opportunities
Ellis Island was the main immigration station for this coast of the U.S.
east
Permanent movement from one country to another
International migration
Someone leaves their home country
A push factor
Name three cities the African American moved to
Chicago, Detroit, and New York etc
Ellis Island is located near this major U.S. city.
What is New York City?
Permanent movement within a particular country
Internal migration
Moving to a new country is a...
Pull factor
Chicago, Detroit, and New York
What is Jim Crow segregation?
Most immigrants who came through Ellis Island were from this continent.
What is Europe?
Permanent movement from one region of a country to another
Interregional migration
What is war, poverty, lack of jobs, famine, or natural disaster?
Push factors
The Great Migration helped spark this cultural movement in Harlem, New York, during the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Most immigrants processed at Angel Island came from this continent.
What is Asia?
Migration from a location
A term used for a worker who migrated to developed countries for work
What are guest workers?
What is better jobs, safety, freedom, or good education?
Pull factors
The Great Migration not only reshaped Northern cities but also influenced politics by giving African Americans more of this kind of power for the first time such as the right to ......
vote
This 1882 U.S. law greatly restricted immigration from China, impacting Angel Island.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Migration to a new location
Immigration
The difference between immigration and emigration
net migration
A family moves because there is no food in their country, but another country has plenty of farmland and jobs. Identify the push and pull factor.
What is famine (push) and farmland/jobs (pull)?