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The Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance Name: World War I created new opportunities for African Americans seeking to escape the horrors of the Jim Crow South. With war came a high demand for manufactured goods. The war also stemmed the tide of European immigration and most American men joined the military, creating a greater labor shortage. In the years during and after the war, African Americans streamed into northern cities in search of better jobs and living conditions. Migrants brought with them various speech patterns, musical traditions, etc. These cultural elements combined in places like Harlem in order to produce new and innovation forms of art, literature and music. 1. During what years did the first Great Migration take place? 2. What event caused it to begin? 3. What are 3 popular cities for it? 4. How is the second migration different from the first Great Migration?
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The Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance Name:
World War I created new opportunities for African Americans seeking to escape the horrors of the Jim Crow South. With war came a high demand for manufactured goods. The war also stemmed the tide of European immigration and most American men joined the military, creating a greater labor shortage. In the years during and after the war, African Americans streamed into northern cities in search of better jobs and living conditions. Migrants brought with them various speech patterns, musical traditions, etc. These cultural elements combined in places like Harlem in order to produce new and innovation forms of art, literature and music.
1. During what years did the first Great Migration take place?
2. What event caused it to begin?
3. What are 3 popular cities for it?
4. How is the second migration different from the first Great Migration?
Who is involved (groups/individuals)? What happened?
Where did it happen? When did it happen?
Why did it happen? What is the central idea/theme of passage?
1. Which choice best summarizes the passage?A. DuBois described the reasons African Americans fought in WW I in the passageB. DuBois explained the challenges African Americans facedC. DuBois believed returning soldiers must now fight for Democracy in the United StatesD. DuBois was optimistic about the future of African Americans in the United States
2. In line 51, “dogma” most nearly meansA. Principles assumed to be trueB. A false doctrineC. An ambiguous beliefD. Implied
3. During the course of the first paragraph, DuBois’s focus shifts fromA. Recollection of great service in the war to the benefits of peaceB. Generalizations about Democracy to fear of warC. The glory of fighting for Democracy in Europe to the weakness of Democracy in the U.S.D. Evaluation of the role African Americans played in the war to the strength of American Democracy
4. The best choice that supports the author’s claim that Democracy in the U.S. need to be fought for isA. (lines 15-17) “we sing:…shameful land.”B. (lines 63-65) “we saved…reason why.”C. (lines 8-11) “For the American…fight, also.”D. (lines 52-54) “This is the…for us to fight.”
5. DuBois anticipates which of the following objections to the call for civil rights?A. The white believe that black men are inferiorB. The lack of voting rights for black menC. the poverty a majority of black men lived inD. Failure to acknowledge the shameful treatment of black men
