Pull/Push Factors
What was the primary pull factor of the Great Migration?
Better and stable jobs for African Americans
What is sharecropping?
The arrangement in which an owner of a plantation could hire workers to work on their land.
What similarity do the 1920s and the 2020s share in terms of transportation?
The 1920s and 2020s both used trains.
What was the major impact of the Great Migration?
African Americans relocated to Northern cities.
How many African Americans migrated from the South before the numbers began to grow?
One million
What laws were established in the South that pushed African Americans away?
Jim Crow Laws
Did sharecroppers use their own tools working on plantations?
No, they used the plantation owner’s tools.
What was the difference in use of trains between the 1920s and 2020s?
The 1920s used trains to get from state to state, whereas subways are used to get from borough to borough.
What type of cities did African Americans relocate to during the Great Migration?
New York, Chicago, and Illinois
The Great Migration caused conflict between…
The North and South
What caused black people to live in poverty/poor conditions?
White people depriving them of resources to improve.
What issue was caused by sharecropping for sharecroppers?
If they didn’t harvest the expected amount, they would become more indebted to the land owner, causing never ending debt.
What is a major difference between the 1920s and 2020s in terms of laws.
While the 1920s had the Jim Crow laws that limited the freedoms of African Americans, the 2020s no. Longer have laws that establish separation/segregation.
What percentage did the African American population increase in Northern cities?
50%
What did African Americans experience according to the Jim Crow laws?
The experienced restrictions on voting, racism, and segregation.
What pest made it difficult for African American farmers to make money?
The boll weevil.
What factors made it difficult for sharecroppers to meet their quota?
Unpredictable harvest seasons, high interest rates, and misleading agreements by landowners.
Both the 1920s and 2020s have racism, but what is the difference?
While the 1920s had more violence and segregation because of racism, the 2020s do not have such intense separation and aggression based on racism.
Many African Americans made their own ”cities“ within bigger cities. What was one example and how many African American resided in that city?
Harlem, which had over 200,000 African Americans
Why was it especially difficult for African American females to find ideal work?
Competition for jobs in domestic labor.
Exactly how much more money did black men earn in the North than black men in the South per day?
They earned $4.25 more per day.
What were the three types of workers involved in sharecropping?
Poor African Americans, descendants of slaves, and poor whites.
What did the Great Migration bring that influenced celebrities of the 2020s? Who are these celebrities?
The Great Migration brought jazz and hip-hop, which impacted celebrities such as Kanye West, Tyler Perry, and Diddy.
What movement did the Great Migration lead to and what did it include?
It led to the Harlem Renaissance, which included music and art.
Where did African Americans who migrated to the North previously work and what were the conditions like?
Slaughterhouses, farms, and factories, which had harsh and detrimental working conditions.