Question

How did patterns of immigration in the U.S. change between the 1840s and the 1910s? What roles did newly arrived immigrants play in the economy during the late nineteenth and early 20th centuries?

Answer 1

The second significant cause of the Great Migration was the desire of black Southerners to escape segregation, known euphemistically as Jim Crow. Rural African American Southerners believed that segregation - and racism and prejudice against blacks - was significantly less intense in the North.Jul 2, 2016