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25 Cards in this Set
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What did America experience between 1890 and WW1? |
The Great Atlantic Migration |
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How many immigrants arrived in the US during this time period? |
18.4 million |
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Where did most of the migrants come from? |
Southern and Eastern Europe |
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Why did Italians migrate to America? |
To escape poverty |
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What group of Russians migrated to the US and why? |
Jewish, to escape persecution |
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Why were more migrants able to travel to America? |
1. Faster transport and ports had more sophisticated systems 2. Better administration, new immigration Centre had open on Ellis Island |
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What were the pull factors for immigrants? |
1. US was seen as the land of the riches, freedom and economic opportunity 2. Established communities such as Little Italy |
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How many immigrants returned home? |
1 in 3 |
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How many Scandinavians returned home? |
20% |
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How many Italians returned home? |
60% |
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How many Russians returned home? |
3% |
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How many Italians were male and what does this reflect? |
80% they had come to work and sent the money home to their families |
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How many women and children were Jews? |
50% and 25% many Jewish immigrants came as families |
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Which region experienced the biggest growth? |
The North and East |
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What was notable about urbanisation in the US by 1920? |
The urban population overtook the rural population |
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What were the effects of urbanisation? |
- New markets and construction projects - cities increased in size - street lighting, trams, civic buildings, public utilities |
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What was the effects on smaller towns? |
Better infrastructure |
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List the three factors of urbanisation. |
1) Immigration 2) Population growth 3) Internal migration |
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How did immigration cause urbanisation? |
- demand for industrial workers - construction, service industries, and sweatshops |
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How big was the population during this time period and why was it so high? |
1900 it was up to 76 million 1920 it was up to 100 million The death rate was at 16.5 per thousand the lowest in the world |
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What group migrated from the South to the North? |
African-Americans |
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What groups were hostile to immigrants? |
- WASPs - American Protective Association |
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Why did Americans fear immigrants? |
- Immigrants were used as strikebreakers - offered cheap labour - overcrowded towns and cities - seen as un-American - blamed for the Pullman Strike and the Homestead |
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What did the American Protective Association call for? |
Limit on immigration because they claimed immigrants were undermining and eroding Anglo-Saxon Protestant ideas |
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How would politicians take advantage of fears about immigration? |
- offered protection and patronage for the WASPs - offered jobs and welfare hand outs to non-immigrants |
