The Great Migration

Why did people move to the North? Choose more than one answer.

• Job opportunities

• To escape violence

• To be a slave

• To be better than everyone else

What were rural areas like during the great migration?

• Depressed economic conditions

• Droughts

• Boil weevil infestation

What is a population shift?

Could sharecroppers leave the land if they were in debt to the landowner?

• Yes

• No

what was the pest responsible for making farming less sustainable during this time period?

• rabbits

• Rats

• Boil weevil

In what way did the migrants mostly travel?

• Train

• Car

Which best defines the experience African Americans had while migrating

• Easy and exciting

• Stressful

• wistful

How old was Jacob Lawrence when he completed his series of paintings about the Great Migration? in 1941

• 30

• 18

• 23

• 42

How many paintings did Jacob Lawrence have about the Great Migration?

• 80

• 190

• 60

• 3

What year was Jacob Lawrence born

• 1960

• 2009

• 1888

• 1917