e industrial surge occurring in the United States, a surge that promised the Irish a better and happier life.
             The African American migration was different from that of the Irish in terms of geographic location, but the factors leading to their decisions to move from their "homeland" to more prosperous areas was very similar. With the end of Reconstruction in the past, Blacks were forced to become sharecroppers' in the Deep South of the U.S. This way of life was very hard for them. Even after being freed, former slaves remained under the control of white landlords (II, 341). Sharecropping caused the farmers to gain more and more debt as the years progressed, since they had to buy all their supplies from the "company store", which was owned by the white landlord. Plus they had to give the landlord a very large cut of the crops (II, 342). This factor "pushed" African Americans out of the South. But the rise in industry in the North "pulled" many Blacks to migrate to Northern Industrial cities like Detroit, Cleveland, New York, and Chicago. With World War I the amount of European immigr
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