1. The 1920s and the experience of African Americans, Women and Immigrants.

2. Great Northern Migration 1916-1920
African Americans leave southern farms with low pay for better jobs in the North.
Took jobs as meatpackers, metalworkers, and autoworkers.
Northern newspapers encourage their migration
½ million left the south. Many were WWI veterans.

3. The period of time during the late teens and early 1920s where 500,000 African Americans moved north for jobs was known as the
A) Great Migration
B) Lost Generation
C) Emancipation Proclamation
D) Immigration station
E) National Origins Act

4. Racial Unrest
White Northerners don’t like blacks getting jobs and opportunities.
In 1917, Race Riots occur in 26 northern cities.
                   

5. These occurred in 26 northern cities during and after WWI because of the influx of African Americans.
A) Work Fairs
B) Race Riots
C) Parades
D) Population declines
E) Great Depression

6. Riots
1919 Chicago- Black child drowns because of whites throwing rocks. Sparks the riot because there are already racial problems.
38 dead 500 injured. Millions in fire damage.
1919- Washington D.C. – Sailors and Marines beat blacks. Blacks respond. Many killed and injured.

7. Southern Cities see Violence
Tulsa Black Community in Tulsa burned to the ground. 10,000 left homeless dead, 750+ wounded. Blacks bombed and shot by planes, also put in camps.
Rosewood Town burned by whites and disappeared. 26 dead.

8. In 1923 whites killed black men and women and burned down this town in Florida.   A) Washington D.C. B) Cottonwood C) Rosewood D) Eastwood E) Watts

9. Black Resistance and Response
Blacks fought back against white oppression and violence.
Marcus Garvey- Back to Africa Movement and United Negro Improvement Society.
Gave blacks pride.
Create separate communities from whites.

10. This man initiated the “Back to Africa” movement. A) Booker T
This man initiated the “Back to Africa” movement.   A) Booker T. Washington B) Malcolm X C) Marcus Garvey D) Marcus Curry E) W.E.B. Du Bois

11. Women gain rights
1920- Women gain the right to vote with the 19th amendment.
Act to help new mothers developed. BUT……
Women still stuck in low paying jobs and barred from others.
Law for women’s minimum wage struck down.

12. Women in the Workforce
Though women still had low wages, they began to leave the factories and households to find work at:
Offices
Switchboards
Typing pools
Stores

13. Immigration in the 1920’s
Immigrants were viewed as radicals, disloyal, and communists in the 1920’s
Anti-communist panic spread through the US called the Red Scare
In 1919, Mitchell Palmer’s men raided Unions of Russian Workers

14. Immigration Restrictions
The 1921 Quota law restricted the number of immigrants into the US to 3% of that nationality living in the U.S. in 1910
In 1924 the National Origins Act Passed.
Limits Asian Immigrants
2% of your group allowed that was here in 1890.
                                             

15. This Act excluded Asian Americans and severely limited the amount of people coming into the U.S. from Europe.   A) National Origins Act B)National Immigration Proclamation C) Immigration Emancipation D) Palmer Raids E) Chinese Exclusion Act

16. Ku Klux Klan The new KKK hated and terrorized
African Americans
Mexican Americans
Immigrants
Jews
French Canadians
The KKK were trying to make America “Pure”
Membership up in the Midwest. Lynchings and floggings common

17. The KKK had it highest membership during the early 1920s and
A) had members elected to state legislatures
B) lynched and flogged African Americans
C) gained the most members in the Midwest
D) targeted Jews, Catholics, Immigrants and Blacks
E) All of the above

18. Reality
Even though they fought hard for equal rights and made had some great accomplishments, African Americans, Women, and Immigrants were still trailing behind white males in wages, jobs, politics, and rights by the end of the 1920’s.