What is the Great Migration and why did it occur???

Question

Help!! idk the answer!! i need it for my geography class.
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Answer 1

The Great Migration was the movement of over a million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States from 1914 to 1950. African Americans migrated to escape the widespread racism of the South, to seek out employment opportunities in urban environments, and to pursue what was widely perceived to be a "better life" in the North.

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Answer 2

The Great Migration, a long-term movement of African Americans from the South to the urban North, transformed Chicago and other northern cities between 1916 and 1970. Chicago attracted slightly more than 500,000 of the approximately 7 million African Americans who left the South during these decades. Before this migration, African Americans constituted 2 percent of Chicago's population; by 1970; they were 33 percent. What had been in the nineteenth century a largely southern and rural African American culture became a culture deeply infused with urban sensibility in the twentieth century. And what had been a marginalized population in Chicago emerged by the mid-twentieth century as a powerful force in the city's political, economic, and cultural life.

Answer 3

The great migration was when the indians were driven west by the white man. You see, the white man destroyed the land they had already taken by over cultivation and razing all the wheat fields so that there was nothing left but the Indian's land. This drove the Indians out and west. There was nowhere else to run.

Answer 4

For better opportunites and to find better jobs

Answer 5

it was the movement of african americans out of the rural southern US from 1914 -1950. They mirgrated to escape the racism of the south, to seek emplyment in urban areas and to pursue what was percieved as a "better life" in the north

Answer 6

The immigration of blacks to the north following the Civil War.

Answer 7

When the group traveled a long ways away. they did this because the landlord wouldn't give any reffrences

Answer 8

people in europe moved to the north america because of famine

Answer 9

Type in the sammme question that is in bold on ask.com

Answer 10

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/reference/articles/great_migration.html