The Great Migration CSA print quiz

What was The Great Migration?

• A) the relocation of more than 6 million Black Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from about 1910 to 1970

• B) Black Americans moving from the North to the South in the United States

• C) the largest animal migration on Earth, and takes place in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania and the Maasai Mara in Kenya

• D) When over 12 million immigrants came to the United States to Ellis Island

The Great Migration had to do with

• A) Black Americans escaping violence

• B) moving North and West

• C) jobs in cities

• D) all the above

When was The Great Migration?

• A) 1900-1905

• B) 1969-1975

• C) 1910-1970

Share Cropping was...

• A) a system of agriculture where tenants farm land owned by someone else in exchange for a share of the crops.

• B) a system of agriculture that involves only livestock farming

• C) a practice where farmers hire only family members to work on the land

• D) a method of farming where landowners do all the work themselves

Sharecropping allowed Black Americans get ahead financially

• A) True, it was a fair system that let Black Americans build up good credit

• B) False, it was an unfair system that put many Black Americans in debt to landowners

Jobs up North included...

• A) working in the meatpacking industry

• B) working in the auto industry

• C) working in the steel and iron industry

• D) all of the above

Black Americans migrated out of the South for economic reasons only

• A) True, the felt safe in the South but they wanted better jobs

• B) False, they felt VERY unsafe in the South and also desired more economic prosperity

During The Great Migration, white southerners began to feel nervous about the low Black population in the South because

• A) white violence started happening with the absence of Black southerners

• B) the economic infrastructure of the South relied heavily on Black Americans

• C) the education system relied mostly on Black men. White students were losing their teachers to the North

• D) they didn't want to be seen as racist by the North since the Black population was so low

Racism didn't exist up North and out West during The Great Migration

• A) True

• B) False

The greater economic and educational opportunities from The Great Migration led to an explosion of artistic expression in music and literature.

• A) True

• B) False