Social Developments: New Immigration and Push Factors for Immigrants and Internal Immigrants Flashcards
When is the period of ‘New Immigration’ to the USA classed as?
1890 to 1910
What do push factors do?
Push people out of their countries
Why was Urbanization a push factor for many Europeans?
They wanted to escape urban life in Europe
Which war started in the 1910s which may have acted as a push factor?
WWI
What was the state of all European economies after WWI?
They were all completely ruined
How was Religious Persecution a push factor to the USA?
They felt they could exercise their religion freely
Give an example of a group of people who left their country to go to the USA and escape Religious Persecution
Russian Jews
How long had Jews wanted to leave Russia for?
Since the 1880s
What internal migration had been occurring in the USA? Since when?
African-American Migration, since the end of Reconstruction
What was the state of political freedom for African Americans by the 1910s?
Most of them were still not able to vote
What did African-Americans experience which separated them from White-Americans?
Segregation
Name a Supreme Court Case which supported Segregation and the year it occurred
Plessy vs Ferguson case in 1896
When did 5 cases occur also supporting segregation?
1883
Name a case which supported segregation in Education and the year it occurred
Cumming vs Richmond Board of Education, 1899.
