RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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European immigrants who settled on the Great Plains
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Plains Indians forced onto reservations in the 1800s
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former slaves from the South who settled on the Great Plains
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cowboys who worked long drives in the summer and odd jobs in the winter
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Detailed explanation-1: -The exodusters were African American migrants who left the South after the Civil War to settle in the states of Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.” The post-Civil War era should have been a time of jubilation and progress for the African-Americans of the South.
Detailed explanation-3: -These hardships, combined with rumors of free transportation, free land, and even monetary gifts, led to a massive migration of African Americans to the Great Plains during the late 1870s.
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.
Detailed explanation-5: -These African American migrants, or Exodusters, came primarily from Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Tennessee.