SOCIAL IMPACT - THE GREAT MIGRATION

Question 1

GREAT MIGRATION

Answer 1

• The Great Migration (1910s -1970s) was the mass movement of approximately 6 million African Americans from the South to the North and Western states

Question 2

WHAT CAUSED THE GREAT MIGRATION

Answer 2

• Jim Crow law: The South was characterised by strict racial segregation and discrimination, which limited African Americans’ access to education, employment, and political power.
• South = Less Opportunities
• West and North - More opportunities
• Media promoted the North as the ‘Promise Land’ about African Americans finding success.

Question 3

THE IMPACT OF THE GREAT MIGRATION

Answer 3

• African Americans took on jobs in factories and other industries, helping to fuel the growth of Northern cities.
• The growing popularity of ‘Jazz music’, which was the symbolic nature of the roaring 1920s.