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THE GREAT MIGRATION

These are our suggested answers.
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 "Natives"
European Immigrants
African American Migrants
Did they come expecting to have better lives?
 .Not in articles, but yes in time before this migration. .Yes Yes.
What kind of jobs were they usually able to get? Skilled or Unskilled?
 .Were more likely to have the skilled jobs. Not likely. not likely.
Were they victims of prejudice and discrimination?
 no
.		 yes. yes.
Describe Their Lifestyles.
(Living Conditions)

 

 .Many natives had achieved comfortable lifestyles. They lived in attractive two-story houses in well-maintained neighborhoods. They sent their children to school and dreamt of an even better future for them. Women ran the household and set a cultural and moral tone for the family.  Many families hired domestic help, often newcomers.  Newcomers were often crowded into tenement buildings in neighborhoods that were filthy and foul-smelling. In one three-block Polish neighborhood in Chicago there lived 7,306 children.
       		 .Newcomers were often crowded into tenement buildings in neighborhoods that were filthy and        foul-smelling.   90% of blacks were confined to a densely populated region on the south side, known as the "Black Belt." The population of these narrowly defined black neighborhoods doubled between 1910 and 1920, yet the boundaries hardly changed. 
They were blamed for the problems and conflicts of the cities.
 No Yes. Yes.
Describe their working conditions.  (What were their jobs like?)
 . .Newcomers worked long hours (sometimes 60-80 hours per week before 1903) for low wages (an average of 22 cents per hour in a large packinghouse), with no guarantee of work the next
 day. Often the women and children in the family had to work to make ends meet. Almost 32,000 foreign-born and black women worked as domestics in Illinois in 1900. 		 .Same as European Immigrants.
Considered by "natives" to be inferior and potentially disloyal.
 .NO Yes. Yes.