Great Migration Quiz
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- Jim Crow Laws
- segragated hotels,resterants,and other public places even hospitals to have seprate buildings
- Years of the Great Migration
- 1916 to 1930
- The Great Depression caused people to seek enw employment opportunities
- Both
- pull factor
- it pulls people to say
- literacy tests
- laws that said all voters must pass a literacy test before they were allowed to vote
- boll weevils
- boll weevils are bugs that eat cotton they were bad because they eat the cotton plants and fored African Americans out of a job
- Grandfather Clause
- A law that said if your grandfather could vote you did not have to take a literacy test or pay a toll
- push factor
- it pushes people away
- Anti-immigration legislation after the war resulted in a dire shortage of workers
- pull
- The Great Mississippi flood of 1927 and its aftermath displaced hundreds of tyhousands of African American farm workers
- Push
- poll tax
- required citizens to pay money to vote