Vocabulary Words
In U.S. history Jim Crow Laws are any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s.
Jim Crow Laws
When African Americans had moved from the rural South to the cities of the North.
The Great Migration
African Americans who came to the north created a new culture in New York City. This time period is known as the Harlem Renaissance. What years did that take place?
1920s
Zora Neale Hurston was noticed for what?
Her book "Their Eyes Were Watching God."
Based on the article, why was the location of Harlem important to the celebration and development of African-American art and culture?
As Harlem grew larger, it became filled with many educated African-Americans who produced art and brought attention to it.
To allow someone else to decide or choose something.
Defer
Did the enslavement did not bring equal treatment for Black people?
No
What year did the insects damaged the cotton crops in the South?
In the 1890s.
Who was an important composer from Harlem and a creator of "Shuffle Along"?
Eubie Blake
What was the relationship between Langston Hughes and jazz?
Hughes wrote poems influenced by jazz.
A cultural, social, and artistic movement that took place in Harlem, New York among African Americans during the 1920s.
The Harlem Renaissance
A type of crime that is fueled by hatred towards a specific race or group of people?
hate crimes
After the Great Migration, what type of treatment did African American people receive in the North?
Northerners did not welcome African Americans with open arms. White people treated Black people unfairly in the North.
Who popularized blues and jazz singing?
Singers such as Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday
Which two of the following are MAIN ideas of the article?
- Look at packet
1 and 4
A line along the southern Pennsylvania border later became informally known as the boundary between the free (Northern) states and the slave (Southern) states.
Mason-Dixon Line
Writers and poets were influenced by who?
influenced by blues and jazz
What city i New York many Black people move to?
Harlem
What type of music was popular and created in Harlem?
Jazz Music
Which detail would be MOST important to include in a summary of the article?
The Great Migration caused many African-Americans to settle in the neighborhood of Harlem.
The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different groups of people
Discrimination
Why was jazz music different?
Jazz was different than other music of the times because of its rhythms and instruments
What years did the Great Migration take place?
1905-1930s
What artist in this article fought for Black rights?
Paul Robeson