Question

Why did African Americans migrate to northern American cities in the early 1900s?

A. To get away from a harsh, dry climate in the South
B. To purchase northern farms, ranches, and mines
C. To escape from former slave owners and masters
D. To work on assembly lines in the new factories

Answer 1

Between 1910 and 1920, the African American population of Omaha doubled from around 5,000 to 10,315. Those 10,000 blacks made up five percent of Omaha's population, while blacks made up only around one percent of the general population of the state. Despite these small numbers, the rate of growth of the minority population was becoming alarming to the white population. By 1920, the rate of increase for blacks was over 130 percent from the previous decade.

Why did African Americans come to Omaha and other northern cities? In 1910 — nearly 50 years after the Civil War ended — 89 percent of all blacks remained in southern states, and nearly 80 percent of those lived in rural areas. But between 1915 and 1920, at least 500,000 blacks migrated north. Some estimates double that number to a million. Thousands more migrated west. There were a number of reasons for the exodus.

From 1913 to 1915, falling cotton prices brought on an economic depression across the South.


After prices dropped, boll weevil insects destroyed much of the cotton crop.


In 1915, severe floods destroyed the houses and crops of farmers along the Mississippi River, most of whom were black.


African Americans suffered under "Jim Crow" laws in the South that segregated schools, restaurants, hotels, railroad cars, and even hospitals. Blacks were effectively kept from voting by laws requiring a literacy test (if you wanted to vote, you had to show you could read) and a poll tax (you had to pay to vote). Whites were exempted from either test by a "grandfather clause" — if your grandfather voted, you could, too.

Answer 2

Based on that , i would say C or possibly D