Between 1900 and 1930, slightly more than one million Mexicans, repsrestning about ten percent of Mexico's population, moved north into the lands the United States had wrested from Mexico during the nineteenth century. any went beyond the southwest into the Mid-West and other regions of the country. The immigrants were drawn north primarily by the lure of securing well-paying jobs in America's burgeoning industries and developing agribusiness empires. The immigrants left for other reasons as well; most notably, as a means to cope with the political instability and economic dislocations unleashed by the Mexican Revolution (roughly 1910-1917) and with the civil unrest and economic hardships that followed in the 1920s.

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