USA HISTORY

RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877

HOMESTEAD ACT

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
African Americans that moved west to claim land under the Homestead act of 1862 were called ____
A
Freedmen
B
Exodusters
C
Westies
D
Reconstruction
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -These migrants, most of them former slaves, became known as exodusters, a name which took inspiration from the biblical Exodus, during which Moses led the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt and into the Promised Land. The exodusters settled in the states of Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma.

Detailed explanation-2: -Many individuals and families were indeed willing to leave the only place they had known to move to a place few of them had ever seen. The large-scale black migration from the South to Kansas came to be known as the “Great Exodus, ” and those participating in it were called “exodusters."

Detailed explanation-3: -Benjamin “Pap” Singleton had the desire to lead people to lands in the West and escape the racist culture of the South. He called himself the “Moses of the Colored Exodus, ” and the people he led the Exodusters.

Detailed explanation-4: -Exodusters was a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century, as part of the Exoduster Movement or Exodus of 1879. It was the first general migration of black people following the Civil War.

Detailed explanation-5: -These African American migrants, or Exodusters, came primarily from Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Tennessee.

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