US History › Section J · Cities and Gilded Age politics › Topic J.2
The Great Migration and new European immigration
Two streams of newcomers filled the growing cities: millions of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, and Black Southerners leaving the rural South. Both were pushed by hardship at home, pulled by wages, and met by suspicion when they arrived.
In this topic
- Two streams into the cities
- Old and new immigration
- Pushed from Europe, pulled to America
- Worked example: one migrant's decision
- Ellis Island
- Building ethnic neighbourhoods
- Black migration before 1915
- Life in Northern cities
- Worked example: when did the Great Migration begin?
- Nativism and the push for restriction
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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