1. Unit 2: Factors of Expansion
Lesson 2.5: Movement & Expansion

2. Focus
Explain the difference between push and pull factors regarding migration.

3. What do you think the “Great Migration” is?
Key Vocabulary
Great Migration
What do you think the “Great Migration” is?
Definition.
Examples/Impact.
Create a test question.

4. The Great Migration
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5. The Great Migration
Would greatly alter the racial makeup of cities such as Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Cleveland.
Would also eventually alter American politics.
For example, Jim Crow laws in the South prohibited African Americans from voting, but they were able to vote in northern cities and affect the policies of northern politicians.

6. Thanks to World War I, there was a labor shortage in many northern factories.
People like Henry Ford were desperate for workers.
Ford sent company agents in to the South to recruit African Americans with the promise of high wages and plentiful work.

7. Assessment Prompt 1: Great Migration

8. The Dust Bowl
Began in the late 1920s, when the dropping price of crops caused many farmers to leave their field uncultivated.
This was followed by a terrible drought in the Great Plains.
Without grass or wheat to hold in what little rainfall they received, the Great Plains soil turned to dust and the area became known as “the Dust Bowl.”

9. Winds would stir up the dust and blacken the sky for miles.
Animals and people would die from suffocation if caught unaware outdoors.
Many farmers had their land turned over to the banks and headed west to California in search of a better life.

10. https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=guTek7ipD4U

11. Assessment 2: The Dust Bowl
Cause
Effect

12. Research Activity
Lets investigate a few other important contributors to American expansion. Use the internet to determine the following: how did each of the following impact American expansion?
You will also complete a graphic organizer for each.
G.I. Bill
Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956
William Levitt and Levittown.

13. Journal Answer the EQ. Consider the following:
What caused many African Americans to migrate North?
What obstacles did those in the Great Migration face?
What were some of the causes and effect of the Dust Bowl?
How has legislation shaped American expansion?