The Great Migration

Question 1

In which city is Harlem located?

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New York City

Question 2

Who was called the “Shakespeare of Harlem” during the Harlem Renaissance?

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Langston Hughes

Question 3

The aspects of a specific location that make people want to move away are called

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push factors.

Question 4

Besides jazz, the Harlem Renaissance was also known for African American

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literature.

Question 5

Zora Neale Hurston collected and wrote about African American

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folk tales.

Question 6

A poet whose works inspired other Harlem Renaissance poets was

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Claude McKay.

Question 7

In the early 1900s, the Chicago Defender was

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an African American newspaper.

Question 8

The Chicago Defender called for an end to lynching and segregation. How did this influence the Great Migration?

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these were push factors

Question 9

Two push factors that caused African Americans to leave the South in the early 1900s were

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segregation and low wages.

Question 10

The Jazz Age occurred during which decade?

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1920s

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