Examples of forced migration in the following topics:
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- 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.
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- Millions of acres of farmland were damaged, forcing farmers—already suffering from depressed prices and declining incomes—to abandon their operations.
- Hundreds of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes.
- Others attempted to migrate to other regions of the country.
- The Dust Bowl exodus was the largest migration in American history within a short period of time.
- With their land barren and homes seized in foreclosure, many farm families were forced to leave.
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- 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.
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- The primary targets of the British colonists were the royal French forces and the various American Indian forces allied with them.
- In the 1720s, a number of American Indian groups began to migrate to the Ohio Country.
- The Delawares were migrating because of the expansion of European colonial settlement in eastern Pennsylvania.
- A number of Senecas and other Iroquois also migrated to the Ohio Country, moving away from the French and British imperial rivalries south of Lake Ontario.
- This is a scene from the French and Indian War (1754–1763), depicting the alliance of French and American Indian forces.
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- Numerous examples of postwar racial friction sparked by Nativism
and the Great Migration reached a peak in the 1919 Red Summer.
- Northern manufacturers recruited throughout the South, sparking
an exodus of African-American workers that became known as the Great Migration.
- At the
height of the tensions came the Red Summer of 1919, when whites carried out
open acts of violence against blacks, who were forced to fight back.
- A
letter in late November from the National Equal Rights League appealed to President
Woodrow Wilson's international advocacy for human rights: "We appeal to
you to have your country undertake for its racial minority that which you
forced Poland and Austria to undertake for their racial minorities."
- One cited the work of the NAACP "urging the colored people to
insist upon equality with white people and to resort to force, if necessary."
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- Civilization in America
began during the last Ice Age when nomadic Paleo-Indians migrated across
Beringia.
- Some genetic research indicates that secondary waves of migration
occurred after the initial Paleo-Indian colonization, but prior to modern
Inuit, Inupiat, and Yupik expansions.
- As the climate changed
and megafauna became extinct, Paleo-Indians were forced to employ a mixed-foraging strategy that included smaller terrestrial game, aquatic animals, and
a variety of flora.
- After multiple waves of migration, complex civilizations
arose.
- The
Mexica migrated to present-day central Mexico and created a triple alliance
with other dominant tribes in the area.
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- In the 1720s, a number of Native American groups began to migrate to the Ohio Country.
- The Delawares were migrating because of the expansion of European colonial settlement in eastern Pennsylvania.
- A number of Senecas and other Iroquois also migrated to the Ohio Country, moving away from the French and British imperial rivalries south of Lake Ontario.
- Meanwhile other British and colonial forces were driving the French from Fort Duquesne and building Fort Pitt, the origin of the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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- After the war, the American government encouraged Native women to take up spinning and weaving and attempted to force men to farm, reversing gender roles and causing severe social problems that ran contrary to Native cultural mores.
- There was a massive migration, not unlike the Great Migration, of blacks to urban areas in the North after the close of the war.
- This migration was largely female.
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- The specifics
of Paleo-Indian migration to and throughout the Americas, including the exact
dates and routes traveled, are subject to ongoing research and discussion.
- Environmental changes and multiple waves of migration also
led to the formation of distinct cultures.
- Although this is generally held to be the result of normal
cultural change through time, numerous other reasons have been suggested to be
the driving forces for the observed changes in the archaeological record, such
as the Younger Dryas' impact event or post-glacial climate change with numerous
faunal extinctions.
- These environmental changes would not only alter hunting and migration
patterns, but would also lead to the evolution of diverse civilizations in the Americas.
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- 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