THE GREAT MIGRATION!

Why did people want to want to move from rural to urban areas?

• People were moving to urban areas because they wanted to live near the big city.

• People were moving to urban areas because they wanted to leave South Carolina.

• urban areas had many new job opportunities for working in factories that payed well.

• People were moving to urban areas because of agriculture job opportunities and appealing farm life

why were people traveling from east to west?

• People were travelling from east to west because of overpopulated cities in the east, and new freedom opportunities in the west

• People were moving to the west because they wanted to get away from South Carolina

• People were moving to the west because it was a rural area and not urban

• People were not moving to the west, they were moving to the east.

Why were African Americans moving to the North and the west?

• because they wanted to get away from being treated unfairly in the south, and because the north and west had lots of job opportunities.

• They were moving away from the south because they wanted to be closer to relatives and people they knew in the north.

• Abraham Lincoln invited them to come to the north and west.

• They wanted to stay in the south

How did Jacob Lawence contribute to the great migration?

• He sang songs, encouraging people in the south to move to the west and the north.

• He wrote books about the sorrows African Americans faced and encouraged them to move to the north and the west.

• he wrote many speeches and spoke them in front of thousands of people about the great migration.

• He painted many paintings, and showed the great migration of African Americans migrated to the north and west.

what was the MOST popular way people migrated

• By train

• by foot

• on horses

• by car

TRUE or FALSE: African American migrants travelled in big groups to the north because it was safer

• TRUE

• FALSE

• cannot answer

In 1910, which section of the united states did MOST African Americans live in

• North

• South

• West

• North-east

What is sharecropping?

• Sharecropping was a system where the Plantation owner had to take care of the plants, and work on the field, and they had to give African Americans a half of the crops to pay them back for all the bad ways they treated African Americans.

• Sharecropping was a unfair system to African Americans that was a new name for slavery. They still had to work on the plantation and they were in a endless cycle of debt.

• Sharecropping was a system where African Americans and Plantation owners worked on the plantation together.

• Sharecropping is a program where people learn that sharing is caring.

Which is NOT a reason why African Americans were in constant debt from sharcropping

• The boil weevil eating the crops

• Unpredictable weather

• They were told they could not go to church

• having unfair rules set by the plantation owner

what is the definition of a push factor:

(HINT: start you answer with a push factor is)