Causes of Migration
What were the discriminatory laws that forced many African Americans to leave the South?
Jim Crow Laws
Who was a prominent African American writer and activist who documented the experiences of the Great Migration?
Langston Hughes
What were the challenges faced by African American women who migrated to Northern cities?
Limited job opportunities and domestic work expectations
This movement helped lay the foundation for the Civil Rights Movement.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
African Americans decided to move to the North for many reasons. Name two reasons.
What is ... harsh treatment of black tenant farmers by white landowners, expensive food, segregation, little opportunity for education, and child labor
What agricultural devastation significantly impacted Black farmers in the South, contributing to the migration?
Boll Weevil infestation
Name a prominent civil rights leader who was heavily influenced by the Great Migration.
W.E.B Du Bois
The right which African Americans had in the North, but they did not have in the South
Right to vote
The four-letter acronym for the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization, created just before the start of the Harlem-Renaissance.
What is The N.A.A.C.P.?
Which city in Michigan was another key destination for African American migrants seeking factory work?
Detroit
What economic opportunity in the North attracted many African American migrants?
Factory jobs
This amendment to the constitution abolished slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
Unfair treatment of African Americans in the South, floods and boll weevil ruined the crops of black farmers, and a shortage of workers in the North are all causes of this.
What is the Great Migration
Two crucial events lead to the downfall of The Harlem Renaissance: The Harlem Riot of 1935 and The _________ _______________.
What is The Great Depression?
What group of Black pilots became legendary for their success in World War II?
The Tuskegee Airmen.
What term describes the practice of denying housing to African Americans in certain neighborhoods?
Redlining
Many people struggled a long time before things got better. "Many people struggled a long time" is what kind of clause
What is an independent clause
Name the New York City neighborhood that became a prominent center of African American culture during the Great Migration.
Harlem
What were the social tensions often experienced by African American migrants in Northern cities?
Housing discrimination and racial segregation
This number of African-American soldiers volunteered to serve in the American army during WW1.
400,000
Reasons why the South was "barren".
What are crops(ruined because of floods & boll weevil), economy (no work & high cost of food), and racial equality (African Americans were treated unfairly).
Many factors contributed to the start of the Harlem Renaissance, including the 13th , 14th and 15th Amendments, The Great Migration, and _____________.
What is WW1?