Migration is when one person or a group of people move from one to another. There are two main reasons people move to a different place.

Push Factors are conditions that can drive people to leave their homes, they can be or voluntary, and relate to a person’s country.

Under "Show Your Work," brainstorm at least 3 examples of push factors with your table group.

Pull Factors are exactly the of push factors; they are factors that people to a certain location.

Under "Show Your Work," brainstorm at least 3 examples of pull factors with your table group.

During the Gilded Age, as the United States experienced an (never before seen) level of wealth, national power, and a major increase in new technology, millions of people from all over the world were drawn to these and immigrated to the United States.

PUSH Factors:

-Consecutive years of

-High

-The (1910-1920): and political exiles fled to the United States to escape the violence

PULL Factors:

-Beginning around the 1890s, in the U.S. Southwest— —attracted Mexican migrant laborers

- Laborers could get paid substantially in the U.S

A worker laying railroad ties in Mexico, on average, earned 20 cents a day in 1900. In the United States, the same work paid one dollar.

Mexican ranchers who worked on haciendas in Mexico were paid a day, usually in supplies, while in the United States they could earn as much as a day.

Following the Gilded Age, the Mexican immigrant population of the United States grew rapidly:

• 1870: only Mexican-Americans

• 1900: already

• 1930: up to 641,000