CH Great Migration

Migration is...

• Movement from one place to another within a country

• Pertaining to or characteristics of a city

• Movement of people from on county to another

Why go west?

• Freedom

• opportunity

• city's becoming crowed

Urban attracted by factory jobs that offered steady income

• ture

• false

Why did most African Americans live in the south in 1910?

• None

• They just liked it there

• Slavery had been centered in the South

• They could make more money there

Being a sharecropper was a good way to make money and get ahead in life.

• False

• Ture

Keeping the races separate is called:

• Capitalism

• Socialism

• Communism

• Segregation

The Great Migration serves as an example of Black Americans taking control of their lives.

• Ture

• False

During which decade did the greatest amount of migration occur? 

• 1940s

• 1970s

• 1960s

• 1920s

Which city experienced The greatest increase in population between 1900 and 1970?

• Detroit

• St. Louis

• New York

• Chicago

define Fluctuate:

• Rise and fall irregularly in number or amount

• the mass movement of African Americans from the rural

  South to the urban North.

• Area sparsely settled, places away from the influence of large cities