USA HISTORY

In 1916 African-Americans in the southern states took advantage of increased opportunities in cities such as Detroit and Chicago by

(A) Building new textile factories

(B) ** Moving north in large numbers

(C) Gaining control of state legislators

Concept note-1: -The Great Migration was the movement of some six million African Americans from rural areas of the Southern states of the United States to urban areas in the Northern states between 1916 and 1970.

Concept note-2: -Arguably the most profound effect of World War I on African Americans was the acceleration of the multi-decade mass movement of black, southern rural farm laborers northward and westward to cities in search of higher wages in industrial jobs and better social and political opportunities.

Concept note-3: -To Southern blacks, Chicago was the “Promised Land.” Stories of big city life-jobs with good wages, homes with running water, and basic freedoms denied to blacks in the South-made the Northern city a prime destination for blacks coming from below the Mason-Dixon line.

Concept note-4: -With the oppressive conditions in the South, African Americans began relocating to the West. Starting in the 1870s, at least 40, 000 African Americans became “exodusters” – moving to Kansas and surrounding states in search of a better life that was free from the domestic terrorism.

Concept note-5: -As a result of housing tensions, many Black residents ended up creating their own cities within big cities, fostering the growth of a new, urban, Black culture.