WorksheetsHarlem Renaissance Review
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 20mins
African Americans in New York City began moving to the Harlem area in about 1900. They were eager to move out of the West Side of Manhattan because of the overcrowded apartment buildings and increasing hostility from white neighbors. Harlem had a surplus of apartments, and so landlords were eager to welcome African American tenants. When African-American churches began to relocate to Harlem as well, the population of African Americans became solidly established and continued to grow. Segregation was widespread in the North as well as the South in the early 1900s. African Americans were banned from many white-owned businesses, including restaurants and hotels. As a result, African Americans started their own businesses to draw on the large number of potential customers in their neighborhood. Among the most successful businesses were nightclubs that featured jazz and blues.
Which of these inferences is best supported by the above passage?
Harlem became an oasis for African Americans in a country with widespread policies of racism.
Harlem was one of many northern cities that sheltered African Americans from the racism of the South.
Harlem offered some of the most affordable housing in the North.
More African Americans lived in Harlem than any other city in the United States.
The Great Migration is a term that refers to the movement of African Americans from the South to large cities in the North between approximately 1916 to 1940 in its first wave. World War I cut off the flow of European immigrants to the United States. Northern factories were growing and needed more workers. They recruited African Americans from the South to help make up for the shortage of workers. African Americans were eager to leave the South because of Jim Crow laws that led to mistreatment and violence against them. Many were sharecroppers who had difficulty surviving economically, especially when an insect infestation decimated the cotton crop during the war. Harlem also attracted black immigrants from the Caribbean, promising greater prosperity and economic opportunity.
The above passage mainly shows that ___________.
during the war, many African Americans also moved from America to the nations of the Caribbean
the war caused work shortages that were filled by African Americans in a pattern of migration from the South that became known as The Great Migration
the strains of war caused the government to institute a mandatory migration of African Americans from their Southern homes to new jobs in Northern factories
since the Civil War, African Americans had been looking for an opportunity to exit the oppressive government of the Southern states
Which of these statements is most strongly supported by the Harlem Renaissance?
The blues has struggled as an art form since the Harlem Renaissance dissolved.
The traditions and gains of the Harlem Renaissance were lost when the economic crisis of the 1930s hit America.
The Harlem Renaissance was one of the factors that caused the Great Depression.
Although the economic crisis of the 1930s marked an end to the Harlem Renaissance, the art and movements of the era influenced generations to come.
__________ is to end; to cause to go away or disappear
diplomat
dispel
improvisation
infestation
__________ is an unusually large sum of insects, plants, or animals in an area
diplomat
dispel
improvisation
infestation
__________ is an oversimplified opinion about an individual or group
infestation
outset
segregation
stereotype
__________ is the act of delivering an unprepared performance or speech
diplomat
dispel
improvisation
infestation
__________ is the act of separating people based on factors such as race, class, gender, or ethnic group
infestation
outset
segregation
stereotype
__________ is the beginning
infestation
outset
segregation
stereotype
__________ is the someone who represents the interests of their own country in a foreign land
diplomat
dispel
improvisation
infestation
