The Great Migration

During the Great Migration, some African Americans chose to move North and to the Midwest for several reasons. Which of the following was most likely NOT a reason that they would have migrated? 

• The hope for a better job.

• The desire to escape Jim Crow Laws.

• The cotton crop failed and many lost their jobs.

• They wanted to move to a place with a better climate.

When did most of the Great Migration take place?

• during and after the Civil War

• during and after the Revolutionary War

• During and after WWI

• During and after WWII

True or False: The Great Migration had a huge impact on the Harlem Renaissance?

• True

• False

The southerners moved to cities in what part of the country?

• The west

• The deep south

• Canada

• The north

What area of New York did many African Americans move to? It became known for artistic, poetic, intellectual and musical creativity.

• The Bronx

• Harlem

• Staten Island

• Queens

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.

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.

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

• TRUE

• FALSE

• cannot answer