aa studies 1-18-23
While migration had taken place during the Reconstruction era, it was not until the imposition of ...... segertaion laws and disfranchisement in the South that large numbers of blacks left their homes and families to search elsewhere for a better life.
Jim Crow,
Which of the following best summarizes the decision reached by the Supreme Court in Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, KS?
The Court determined that separate but equal laws were unconstitutional in schools.
-Born a slave in the early 1800s -Escaped to freedom in 1846 -Returned to his native Tennessee during its occupation by Union troops in 1862 -Organized the "Exoduster Movement" in 1879 What prominent African American is being described here?
Benjamin "Pap" Singleton
Unlike W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey
was associated with a "back to Africa" movement for African Americans
What was the white evacuation of inner-cities known as?
white flight
The First Great Migration is generally said to have begun in which period on the timeline?
2
Which BEST describes the Great Migration that occurred as a result of World War I?
African-Americans began moving North seeking job opportunities.
Which of the following was not a positive impact of the Great Migration?
As more people moved north, increased levels of carbon dioxide altered the climate.
Which best describes why WEB DuBois and Booker T. Washington's approaches to and strategies towards Civil Rights were so different?
DuBois was born in the North, earned his doctorate from Harvard, after having scholarships from other prestigious institutions, while Washington was born a Southern slave, and his determination allowed him to gain education and respect as a leader.
Beginning in 1879, thousands of African-Americans fled the racial oppression of the Reconstruction-era South and settled in Kansas because of its racial tolerance and abolitionist history. Which term refers to these migrants?
Exodusters
Was born an enslaved person in Missouri toward the end of the Civil War.Began teaching at Tuskegee Institute in 1896 and went on to gain international fame as an agricultural educator, inventor, and researcher.Improved the lives of thousands of Alabama's sharecroppers by convincing land owners to plant other crops like peanuts, soybeans, and sweet potatoes.Which famous African American entrepreneur is being described?
George Washington Carver
· Born a slave. · Worked at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. · Promoted crops such as peanuts and soybeans. · Sometimes called the "Black Leonardo" for his innovation. All of these are describing what famous inventor?
George Washington Carver
Which number on the map represents the destination of Exodusters after the Civil War?
Kansas
Civil Rights activist who was part of the "Back to Africa" movement of the early 20th century and founded the "Black Star Steamship Company" for this purpose.
Marcus Garvey
Which of these played the BIGGEST role in creating the situation shown in this photograph?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Which of these BEST describes the first large-scale, voluntary migration of black Americans soon after the Civil War?
The movement of Exodusters out of the deep south to areas in the midwest such as Kansas in the late 1870s and early 1880s.
In 1870- just nine years after becoming a state- Kansas was home to just over 16,000 African Americans. By the start of the next decade, over 43,000 African Americans called Kansas home. The migration of these "Exodusters" westward had swelled the state's Black population by approximately 27,000. Which of these BEST describes the reason for the movement of the Exodusters westward? Responses
They left the South to escape the discrimination and lack of opportunity there.
Booker T. Washington arrived in Alabama in 1881 to serve as the first superintendent of a "normal school for the education of colored teachers." The school was named
Tuskegee Institute.
Which of the following statements about the Great Migration is not accurate?
Western states encouraged the move because many cities were overcrowded.
Which of the following best explains why many large cities were left with an almost exclusively black population in their inner-city areas?
Whites abandoned the inner-cities in favor of homes in the suburbs.
in fact or reality
de facto
according to law
de jure
Like Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey believed Blacks in the United States should
educate themselves to be successful citizens and people.
African Americans who left the South for Kansas to escape discrimination and own farmland
exodusters
Many looked for higher wages in ...jobs, as well as better.... and political opportunities.
industrial, social
Where did most African Americans live in 1900?
south
One of the bigest impacts of WW! on African Americans was in the Great Migration. This was the movement of Black Americans from....... to rual locations in the north and ........
southern, west
Booker T. Washington was most known for being
the founder of Tuskegee Institute.