Great Migration

At the beginning of the 20th Century, where did the majority of African-Americans live in the United States?

• The rural South

• The urban North

• The rural West

• The urban Midwest

This was the city that saw the largest increase in its African-American population and was also known for automobile production.

• New York

• Chicago

• Detroit

• Cleveland

The start of The Great War caused a drop in immigration due to fear of ships being sunk by German submarines. This lack of European immigrants caused a need for ___________ in northern factories.

• Snapchat posts

• Factory workers

• Blue Takis

• Kitty litter

Which of the following was one of the only jobs available to African-Americans in some southern states?

• Meatpacking

• Foundries

• Steel Mills

• Sharecropping

What was one thing that some Northerners attempted to prevent African-Americans, who moved into cities, from buying?

• Cars

• Planes

• Chickens

• Houses

Two of the reasons many African-Americans left the south for cities in the Midwest and the north were--

• better weather and less traffic

• escaping violence and better job opportunities

• less noise and fewer people

• better schools and libraries