It was caused primarily by the poor economic conditions as well as the prevalent racial segregation and discrimination in the Southern states where Jim Crow laws were upheld. According to Isabel Wilkerson, the migrants and the children of the migration put the lie to the limiting ideology of Jim Crow, and exclusion.
This might help as well:
The driving force behind the mass movement was to escape racial violence, pursue economic and educational opportunities, and obtain freedom from the oppression of Jim Crow. The Great Migration is often broken into two phases, coinciding with the participation and effects of the United States in both World Wars.
The spread of the Italian innovations and art was spraeding to Europe (THIS IS WHAT SET OFF THE NORTHERN RENAISSANCE, IT WAS LIKE A CONTAGIOUS DISEASE OF INNOVATION)
The cities of italy also grew and expanded in size and in power as well
Proposed that a system of block grants be assigned to states to spend as they saw fit
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Explanation:
This proposal came from Nixon’s new federalism and it is based on the idea that every state can be assigned certain amount of economical resources in order to develop different kinds of programs that their governors consider need priority or faster attention.
