migration

Examples of migration in the following topics:

• The Great Migration and the "Promised Land"

  • People also frequently migrated to cities where they had family.
  • The African-American Great Migration created the first large, urban black communities in the North.
  • As African Americans migrated, they became increasingly integrated into society.
  • This later painting, titled "During World War I there was a great migration north by southern Negroes" by the artist Jacob Lawrence, depicts African-American migration north via abstract images.
  • Many African-Americans migrated North in search of a better life.

• African American Migration

  • The Exodus of 1879 was the first general migration of blacks following the Civil War.
  • It was the first general migration of blacks following the Civil War.
  • This sudden wave of migration came as a great surprise to many white Americans, who did not realize that black southerners were free in name only.
  • Summarize the patterns of African American migration in the late nineteenth century

• Changing Demographics

  • In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Mexican population in the U.S. grew and African-Americans migrated to the North.
  • Some historians differentiate between the first Great Migration (1910–1930), numbering about 1.6 million migrants who left mostly rural areas to migrate to northern and midwestern industrial cities, and a Second Great Migration (1940 to 1970), in which 5 million or more people moved, including many to California and various western cities.
  • The Great Migration created the first large urban black communities in the North.
  • The primary factors for migration from the South were segregation, the widespread violence of lynching, and a lack of opportunities.
  • This later painting, titled "During World War I there was a great migration north by southern Negroes" by the artist Jacob Lawrence, depicts African-American migration north via abstract images.

• Migration to North America

  • Civilization in America began during the last Ice Age when nomadic Paleo-Indians migrated across Beringia.
  • While some researchers may debate the “why” and “when” of migration patterns, all can agree that migration would not have been possible without a glacial epoch. 
  • While there is general agreement that the Americas were first settled from Asia, the pattern of migration, its timing, and the place(s) of origin in Asia of the peoples who migrated to the Americas remain unclear.  
  • After multiple waves of migrations, it was several thousand years before the first complex civilizations arose.
  • Describe early inhabitants of the Americas and the environmental changes that made migration possible

• Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Maine

  • Connecticut was formed as a migration from the Massachusetts colony.

• African and Asian Origins

  • Genetic evidence found in Paleo-Indians' mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) supports the theory of multiple genetic populations migrating from Asia.
  • The two main southward routes proposed for human migration are down the Pacific coast or by way of an interior passage (Mackenzie Corridor) along the eastern flank of the Rocky Mountains.
  • According to the Recent African Origin hypothesis, a small group of early humans living in East Africa migrated northeast, possibly to escape adverse conditions or to search for food.
  • The Aborigines of Australia could be the descendants of the first wave of migrations out of Africa .
  • Map of early human migrations based on the Out of Africa theory

• German Migration

• The Mormon Exodus

  • The Mormon exodus of 1846-47 was a large migration of members of the Church of Latter Day Saints from their home in Illinois to Salt Lake Valley, Utah.
  • The well organized wagon train migration began in earnest in April 1847, and the period (including the flight from Missouri in 1838 to Nauvoo) known as the Mormon Exodus is, by convention among social scientists, traditionally assumed to have ended with the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869.
  • Wagon train migrations to the far west continued sporadically until the 20th century, but not everyone could afford to uproot and transport a family by railroad, and the transcontinental railroad network only serviced limited main routes.
  • For his role in the migration, Brigham Young is sometimes referred to as the "American Moses. "

• The "Nadir of Race Relations" and the Great Migration

  • In what became known as the Great Migration, more than 1.5 million black people left the South, and, while they faced difficulties, their chances overall were better in the North.
  • In the South, white people worried about the loss of their labor force and so frequently tried to block the black migration.
  • The years during and after World War I saw profound social tensions in the United States, not only because of the effects of the Great Migration and European immigration but also due to demobilization and the competition for jobs with returning veterans.

• Changes in Agricultural Production

  • Agriculture underwent a revolution in the 1920s as heavy equipment enabled rapid expansion but also hurt small farmers and caused a migration to urban areas.
  • In fact, many did not remain down on the farm and instead became part of a great migration of youth from farms to nearby towns and smaller cities.
  • Some of this could be attributed to a desire for something more adventurous than rural life after seeing some of the culture capitals of Europe, but the migration was also driven by factors such as farm mechanization.
  • This was a direct cause and effect in terms of farmers migrating to urban areas even before the economic devastation of the Great Depression that came after 1929.