Five Themes of Geography
The Great Migration and Chicago History
Push and Pull Factors
Vocabulary
Misc.
100

What theme describes the travel of people, goods, and ideas?

Movement

100

Where did African Americans move during the Great Migration?

North and West

100

What kind of factor makes people leave a place?

Push

100

What is the enforced separation of different racial groups called?

Segregation 

100

What two lines are used to find absolute location?

Latitude and Longitude 

200

What are the two types of location?

Absolute, Relative

200

What farming system kept African Americans in debt?

Sharecropping

200

What kind of factor causes people to move to a new place?

Pull

200

What loan is taken out to buy property like a house?

Mortgage

200

What Chicago lake is the third-largest of the Great Lakes?

Lake Michigan

300

What theme shows how humans change the environment?

Human-Environment Interaction

300

Which Chicago neighborhood became a center for African American culture during the Great Migration?

Bronzeville

300

Moving for better jobs is an example of what kind of factor?

Pull

300

What happens when someone cannot repay a loan for a house?

Foreclosure

300

Starbucks is across the street from Wingstop. This is an example of _______.  

Relative location

400

What theme describes the physical and human features of a place?

Place

400

Redlining was a policy that affected where people could buy ______, leading to segregation in Chicago.

Houses/Housing

400

Leaving because of war is an example of what kind of factor?

Push

400

What is the discriminatory practice of denying loans or housing based on race?

Redlining

400

The coordinate below are an example of _______

41.74578580751935, -87.63483300336364

Absolute Location

500

What theme describes areas that share common features?

Region

500

What newspaper encouraged African Americans to move to Chicago during the Great Migration?

The Chicago Defender

500

What type of push factor is it when people leave due to flooding?

Environmental

500

What is the term for when people fail to pay back a loan?

Default

500

The cultural boom in cities like New York and Chicago during the Great Migration led to what major artistic movement?

The Black/Harlem Renaissance

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