- 16 million - From Europe - Pushed by poverty, unemployment, overcrowding and religious persecution - Settlement in industrial cities Chicago and NYC - USA = land of opportunity - West = Asians, mainly Chinese - Middle class and wealthy left city and urban hustle - Cities = working class and poor - Tenements w/ poor construction and ventiliation - Close quarters = cholera, typhus and TC - Ethnic Enclaves w/ cultural and religious institutions - Banks, political organizations and urban grocery stores

- Exoduster Movement = westward black migration - Escaping KKK and segregation - To Kansas, OK and Colorado - Coloured Relief Board and Kansas Freedman's Aid Society created as assistance - Most successful in urban Kansas as domestic servants or trade workers - Tried for homesteads but rails had used farmland

6.8: Immigration and Migration in The Gilded Age Flashcards by Zarah Kosandar

IMMIGRANTS

16 million
From Europe
Pushed by poverty, unemployment, overcrowding and religious persecution
Settlement in industrial cities Chicago and NYC
USA = land of opportunity
West = Asians, mainly Chinese
Middle class and wealthy left city and urban hustle
Cities = working class and poor
Tenements w/ poor construction and ventiliation
Close quarters = cholera, typhus and TC
Ethnic Enclaves w/ cultural and religious institutions
Banks, political organizations and urban grocery stores

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MIGRANTS

Exoduster Movement = westward black migration
Escaping KKK and segregation
To Kansas, OK and Colorado
Coloured Relief Board and Kansas Freedman’s Aid Society created as assistance
Most successful in urban Kansas as domestic servants or trade workers
Tried for homesteads but rails had used farmland

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