The Great Migration
1915–1940 1940–1970
When did the Great Migration happen?
They began attacking and killing Europeans living in China.
What did the Boxers do in May 1900?
Monopolies were bad because they eliminated competition, causing high prices, low wages, and poor working conditions. Roosevelt broke up these monopolies using government power and earned the nickname “Trustbuster.”
Why were monopolies bad? What did Roosevelt do about them?
Women worked as railroad workers, dockworkers, bricklayers, coal miners, shipbuilders, nurses, clerks, and teachers.
What are some of the jobs held by women during the War?
How many in 1970? In 1900, around 90% of African Americans resided in the Southern states. However, by 1970, this number had significantly decreased to just 40%, indicating a major shift in population distribution over the decades.
What percentage of African Americans lived in the South in 1900?
A region of China where a foreign country had special trading rights and could sell goods freely.
What was a sphere of influence?
Roosevelt became the 26th president in 1901 after President William McKinley was assassinated.
How did Roosevelt become the 26th president in 1901?
Women were “rewarded” with greater recognition and respect, which helped lead to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1919, granting them the right to vote.
How were women “rewarded” for their help in winning the War?
Despite their efforts, they continued to encounter racism, struggle with low-wage jobs, live in overcrowded conditions, face unfair rent prices, and deal with racial tensions that sometimes erupted into riots.
What challenges did African American face when they moved North?
They sent an international army of about 20,000 troops—including British, German, French, and American soldiers—to defeat the Boxers.
How did the Europeans and US stop the rebellion?
The main idea of Roosevelt’s quote is that women should have equal rights and opportunities as men, including the right to vote, work in any profession they choose, and receive equal pay for equal work.
Look at Roosevelt’s quote from his autobiography about women. What is the main idea of this quote?
A German-born man named Robert Prager was lynched by a mob in Illinois. Schools stopped teaching the German language and removed German books from libraries. Americans renamed German foods like hamburgers to Salisbury steak.
What are three examples of anti-German attitudes in America during the War?
African Americans migrated to the North to escape the harsh realities of Jim Crow laws, discrimination, violence, and poverty that plagued the South.
Why did the Great Migration happen?
China had a large population, which made it an important market for other nations to sell their factory-made goods.
Why was China considered valuable to other nations in 1900?
Theodore Roosevelt was born into a wealthy New York family, was often sick as a child, and loved learning. He went to Harvard, studied law briefly, and chose politics instead. After his first wife died, he married Edith Carow and had five children.
Describe Roosevelt’s childhood.
They convinced people to support the war by using propaganda like posters and cartoons to promote patriotism and explain why the war was necessary.
How did CPI convince people to support the war?
The Great Migration was a significant movement where millions of African Americans left the rural South to move to cities in the North and West.
What was the Great Migration?
the US didn’t have its own sphere, and this system threatened to cut America off from trading with China.
Why did the US dislike spheres of influence?
In 1880, Roosevelt briefly attended Columbia Law School before choosing writing and politics. He married Alice Lee and had one daughter, but after her death, he married Edith Carow in 1886. They lived at Sagamore Hill and had five children.
What did Roosevelt do out West in the 1880s before he became president?
The Espionage and Sedition made it illegal to speak out against the government or the war, which limited people’s freedom to express their opinions, something protected by the First Amendment.
How did the Espionage and Sedition Acts violate a person’s First Amendment right to freedom of speech?