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Article: Moving northward in the 1900s: today, migrant workers are still hired to harvest agricultural crops, such as lettuce, being gathered in this photograph.
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- Cobblestone
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- May 1, 2004
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The dawn of the twentieth century brought a boom in mining and agriculture, as well as an expansion of railroads, to the American Southwest. These industries required more workers, and they used people from Mexico to fulfill their needs. From 1910 to 1920, the number of Mexicans who came to the United States nearly doubled--from 367,510 to 700,541.
In 1910, the Mexican Revolution began. For more than a decade, fear and violence reigned in Mexico. Although the revolution formally ended in 1917, outbreaks of fighting persisted into the 1920s. Unemployment, inflation, and starvation also increased. About one million Mexicans died.
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