Changing Demographic Patterns

Analyzing the effects of migration and immigration of the United States

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The Great Migration
During World War one, the blacks migrated north to work factory jobs
Manifest Destiny
It was the idea that the nation was meant to spread to the Pacific, to expand west.
Civil War
Citizens who were pro slavery, moved South in order to support their beliefs where as citizens who opposed slavery moved North to the Union. Blacks also migrated North to escape the harshness of slavery.
African Americans
Kidnapped by English colonists and transported west to North America in order to do manual labor
Mexicans
Migrated to the United States in order to obtain better living conditions/job oppurtunities.
European Migration
English colonists migrated west to North American in order to escape religious persecutions.