During the "Great Migration" (1910-1920) between 300,000 and 1,000,000 African Americans moved north to take unskilled factory jobs at manufacturing plants boosting production for World War I.

The third wave of immigration (1890-1914) now brought 15 million Austro-Hungarians,
Turks, Lithuanians, Russians, Greeks, Italians and Romanians, as well as more English, Irish, Germans, Scandinavians and others from northwestern Europe to settle mainly in cities.

Between 1900 and 1910 automobile registrations rose from 8,000 to 469,000.

The Golden Age of streetcars (1890-1920) was marked by an increase of ridership from 2 to 15.5 million passengers a year.

 

 

Traveling near and far

Continue your family scrapbook.

You are going somewhere.

For some of you this is a delightful excursion to see one of the great events of the century. 

For others the trip is born of necessity, hunger or a tragedy.

See Entertainment, People and Holidays, Excursions and Trips for ideas about your trip and its purpose.

Read the fictional journal of Jenny Brown about her family's journey in a Model-T from Waterford, Michigan to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Find pictures and maps to record how you get there and what you see along the way and at your journey's end. 

Where do you travel and with whom?  Tell the story of your trip in journal entries.

 

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Panama Pacific International Exposition: Special ticket for admission to "San Francisco Day" Tuesday, November 2, 1915.http://www.meow.com
Since 1995, the internet's first Panama-Pacific International Exposition website.

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Passengers hang on to the crowded Baker Line trolley in 1910
Reprinted with permission from the Detroit News' Rearview Mirror
"Clang, clang, clang went the Trolley"

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USA, NY, New York, Ellis Island, "Immigrants who have been passed,"
X105605  from New York, NY, Ellis Island -- Immigration: 1900-1920 (Keystone-Mast Collection). Courtesy of the UCR/ California Museum of Photography.

 

 

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