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WorksheetsThe Great Migration
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 4mins
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?
(a)
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
