1. The Move North Lesson starter.
Give at least 4 reasons why many Americans want an end to immigration by the 20th century?

2. Today we will…
Understand why many Black Americans chose to move to Northern cities
Understand the problems they faced in The North

3. Background…
Black Americans were concentrated in the Southern states
Owners of large cotton plantations had bought slaves to pick cotton
Slavery was widely accepted in the South
The Northern states had more modern attitudes; they believed slavery was wrong
This division was the cause of the American Civil War in the 19th century

4. When WWI broke out in 1914, factories in the North desperately needed workers
Black Americans were encouraged to go north now that European immigration was restricted
They jumped at the chance

5. Why leave the South? Black people could be beaten and killed by whites
Blacks were 2nd class citizens
Blacks paid less than whites
Blacks faced discrimination on a daily basis

6. Why go north? Push factors Pull factors Segregation (Jim Crow laws)
Violence from the KKK
Low paid jobs
Sharecropping (landowners would allow black Americans to farm on an area of their land in exchange for a share of the crops at the end of the year)
No voting rights
More jobs (steel industry during WWI)
Promises of more civil rights
Some employers paid travel expenses
Newspapers (e.g. Chicago Defender) advertised train schedules
Promises of better housing and access to education

7. Problems Black Americans faced in the North
Still faced racism regularly
Any whites thought they were above Black Americans
Segregated into black communities
Forced into poor ghetto housing
So…things were better in the North BUT by no means perfect

8. The Tulsa Riot Read page 25 of the Free at Last? Textbook
Create a mind map or spider diagram on the Tulsa Riots of 1921