Peopling

Peopling

  • Great Migration occurred during World War I as people moved to the cities for the war time industry boom. These people included various races, notably the African Americans. These African Americans settled in Harlem which will lead to the Harlem Renaissance.
  • The Dust Bowl occurred during the 30’s as it was a massive drought that struck the Midwest. This led to the forced relocation of farmers to the state of California so they can make a living and not starve.
  • Baby Boom is the generation born during 1946-1964. This generation included the movement to the Suburbs. This migration out of the cities led to the decline of the inner city while bolstering the American Dream of a house with a picket fence line.
  • Levittowns are housing developments created by the Levitt Company that perfected the mass production of houses. This also contributed to the surbanization of the American middle class and the migration away from the cities.
  • Bracero Program is a program instituted in 1942 that brought in Mexican workers to farm in Wrold War II. This led to the increase of Mexican immigrants farming in America. However there were great increases after the program was cancelled in illegal immigration.
  • Hippies and their migration - in 1969 Woodstock was held in in New York thus sparked a new era of drugs and music in America in the 70’s. These people were known as hippies and notable moved westward to places like California and strong cultural meccas of America.
  • International Airlines- became more popular post WW1 because the technology for flying people across oceans safely was much cheaper. They steadily grew in popularity and led to the ability of people to migrate from other countries to and from America in masses at much faster speed than what boats could previously do.
  • War Refuge Board-established in 1944 with little support from the Roosevelt administration, eventually helped to save about 200,000 Jews, who were placed in refugee camps in countries such as Morocco and Switzerland.
  • Emergency Quota Act of 1921 is an act passed to limit the immigration of people from Europe and other areas. It limited the migrations and established the nativism of the 20s.
  • Japanese internment-Similar to the Red Scare in WWI, many Americans feared Japanese Americans were a threat to American safety. 110,000 Japanese-Americans were forced into these camps because the US feared that they might act as saboteurs for Japan in case of invasion. The camps deprived the Japanese-Americans of basic rights, and the internees lost hundreds of millions of dollars in property. In the Supreme Court ruling in Korematsu v. U.S. (1944), the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the concentration camps.