The First Great Migration

Question 1

Economic advantage of going north

Answer 1

More jobs with better wages
$3.35 >$0.75 in countryside

Question 2

Racism advantage

Answer 2

Escape from Jim Crow and lychings

Question 3

Job issue

Answer 3

Bollweivels

Question 4

What was the value of Cotten 1920< 1930

Answer 4

$42cents - $5 cents

Question 5

How many cotton workers moved north in the first great migration

Answer 5

30,000

Question 6

How many in 1910 what percentage of black Americans lived in south

Answer 6

89%

Question 7

Voting push first great migration

Answer 7

Black people could vote in north

Question 8

How many black Americans migrated north in first great migration

Answer 8

1.6million people

Question 9

When did the use plunge into economic depression

Answer 9

1929-41

Question 10

How many black Americans migrated to north between 1916-18 and why

Answer 10

400,000 beacuse of World War One

Question 11

What was the most popular black newspaper and what did it do for World War One

Answer 11

The Chicago defender, encouraged black people to migrate north and work in the defence industry

Question 12

What was there a drop off in 1914

Answer 12

A drop off European migrants

Question 13

Economic boom in 1914 south

Answer 13

Due to the European car industry