The Great Migration

What was the name of the mass movement of African Americans from the south?

• The Great Adventure

• The Great Migration

• The Great Movement

• Trail of Tears

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What is the name of the racist segregation laws in the early to mid-20th century?

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Jim Crow Laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, "Jim Crow" being a pejorative term for an African American.

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Why did African Americans want to leave the South?

• For more opportunities for better jobs and education

• Because of sharecropping

• For better weather and better food

• To escape the Jim Crow South and racial violence

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Which of these are cities that African Americans moved to during the Great Migration?

• Pittsburgh

• Chicago

• St. Louis

• New York

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What is the name for a person who is forced to flee their home in fear of danger, violence, war, persecution and/or natural disaster?

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Do you believe the African Americans fleeing the south should be considered refugees? Why or why not?

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What was life like for African Americans in the south after slavery ended?

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What does migration mean?

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What is the name of the system where the Farm/plantation owner allows a tenant (former slaves or indentured servants) to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop they harvest?

• Prison system

• Discrimination

• Sharecropping

• Segregation

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How did sharecropping lead to the prison industrial complex (Mass Incarceration)?