Great Migration & Harlem Renaissance

What were small farmers in the South farmers who rented their land and homes known as

• Sharecroppers

• Land agents

• Merchants

• Investment Bankers

The small insect that devastated the cotton crop in the South was

• Boll Weevil

• Fire Ants

• Bumble Bee

• Ladybugs

Laws in the southern states that were made to keep white and black people separated

• Jim Crow Laws

• Blue Laws

• Bankruptcy Laws

• Contract Laws

The large movement of people from the South to the North and Midwest for jobs and a better life was called

• The Great Migration

• The Great Flood

• The Great Experiment

• The Great Idea

Manufacturing or producing large amounts of goods in a standardized way is called

• Mass Production

• Customized Cabinetry

• Mass and Matter

• Disposable Income

A group of artists and writers that was based in New York gave a voice to the African American experience. What are they known as?

• New York Mets

• Harlem Globetrotters

• New York Philharmonic

• Harlem Renaissance

What was the name of the US government agency that hired many artists and writers to help bring art to the American public

• WPA (Works Progress Administration)

• Federal Trade Commission

• US Supreme Court

• US Senate

This person from South Carolina was a famous jazz trumpet player.

• Dizzy Gillespie

• Hootie and the Blowfish

• Henry McMaster

• Dawn Staley

A famous writer known for a novel called, Their Eyes Were Watching God, was also a recorder of African American folk songs and stories.

• Zora Neale Hurston

• Ida Tarbell

• Taylor Swift

• Jane Addams

This Poet is one of our most famous American poets. He is known for writing poems like, Harlem and Mother to Son. What is his name?

• Langston Hughes

• Robert Frost

• William Shakespeare

• Darius Rucker