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<\/p>\nBetween 1850-1914, 40 million people emigrated to the United States of America. For most the journey was hard and consisted of two weeks in the cheapest class of travel with little or no privacy.\u00a0There was also no guarantee that they would be allowed in!<\/p>\n
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Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island in 1902. From Immigration had made the USA a very mixed society. USA at the start of the 20th Century<\/a> – Causes of the Economic Boom<\/a> – Impact of Economic Growth in the 1920’s<\/a> – Agriculture in the 1920’s<\/a> – The “Roaring” Twenties<\/a> – Prohibition<\/a> – Ku Klux Klan in the 20’s<\/a> – Causes of the Wall Street Crash<\/a> – Consequences of the Wall Street Crash<\/a> – The Great Depression<\/a> – The New Deal<\/a> – Opposition to the New Deal<\/a> – Evaluation of the New Deal<\/a><\/p>\n The Red Scare<\/a> –\u00a0 Impact of the Second World War on Civil Rights<\/a> – Civil Rights in 1950<\/a> – Brown v Topeka Board of Education<\/a> – Little Rock High School<\/a> – Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Protest<\/a> – Martin Luther King Jnr<\/a> – Nation of Islam and Malcolm X<\/a> – The Black Panthers<\/a> – Ku Klux Klan in the 1960’s<\/a> – March on Washington<\/a> – USA: Civil Rights Acts in the 1960s<\/a>\u00a0– Immigration Act of 1965<\/a> – Chicano movement and Civil Rights for Hispanic Americans<\/a> – College Sit In’s and Student Protests<\/a> – Women’s Rights<\/a> – Native Americans and Civil Rights<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Related Links<\/p>\n
\nWikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhy did people migrate to America?<\/h3>\n
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Who were the Americans?<\/h3>\n
\nAmerica was like \u2018a melting pot\u2019.
\nThe idea was that the immigrants lost their old identity and became AMERICANS!
\nOld Immigrants. These were the first European settlers from Britain, Germany
\nand Scandinavia. Their descendants tended to hold the best jobs, the most
\nmoney and political power- WASPs.
\nNative American Indians. These people originally lived across the whole
\nof the continent. Between 1850-90 they were forced off their land.
\nBy 1917 many Indians lived in reservations across America.
\nBlack Americans. In the C18th and C19th millions of Africans were brought
\nto America to work as slaves. By 1920 there were 11 million Black people
\nliving in America.
\nSouthern and Eastern Europeans. In the late C19th most new immigrants
\ncame from Russia, Poland and Italy. Many were Jews and Catholics.
\nHispanics
\nAsians<\/p>\nHistory of the United States in the Twentieth Century<\/h2>\n
America in the 1920s and 1930s<\/h3>\n
The United States c1945-1971<\/h3>\n